I'LL POST PICS IN A COUPLE DAYS. MAYBE.

ok so yes, i have been a very neglectful blogger
i had very very good intentions to update about a week ago when we were in Wanaka, but for some reason blogger kept coming up in chinese and i spent a good twenty minutes trying to make it english but no dice. and i am just not so good at figuring out how to translate chinese, so i gave up

but alas, now i am back

when did a last post? Hokitika? oh boy that was a while ago

ok so after Hokitika, we went to Lake Tekapo, in a desperate and SUCCESSFUL attempt to escape the rain
it was very lovely there
then we went to Oamaru AND WE SAW PENGUINS!!! YES!!! PENGUINS!!! tons and tons of penguins! i think they are my new favourite animals. we saw yellow eyed penguins which were neat, but my favourites were the blue penguins. they are the smallest penguins in the world, growing up to 30cm tall. and we watched them come up onto the shore after a long day of hunting, then they all waddled up to their nests. and it was pretty hilarious because half of them take naps on their way from the water to their nests. like, they just stop waddling and fall asleep standing up. then three minutes later: waddle waddle again.
so funny

then we went to Dunedin and i bought to shoes (Garmont Negevis woot woot!) in an attempt to cure my toe problem... which is weird and probably caused by too much hiking in crappy shoes. but it's fixed now!

then we went to Port Chalmers which was very nice

then we drove through the Catlins (also very nice) to Invercargill (not so nice) then up to Queenstown where we met up with friends from Blenheim and partied like it was 1999.

then we went to milford sound and did a kayak trip that kinda wasn't so cool cause it was so windy we had to head in really early. but the drive there and back was actually the most awesome thing ever

then we went to wanaka where apparently blogger.com is in chinese

then we went to franz josef and we went hiking on the glacier for a day! and i don't like snow and i don't really like hiking and i really don't like going up. but alas, i found Hiking Up Snow to be extremely fun. who woulda thought?

then we drove up the west coast to greymouth and picked up our friend Andy from Blenheim (ok so he's not FROM blenheim, but that's where we met him) and we (and by we, i mean nicole. i was official dj. andy was official music critic) drove all the way back to blenheim in one day. and there we had a small blenheim reunion. or, as Jork called it, a "Blenheim Revival". and it was so much fun to see everybody and have another sushi night. but also it was really strange because we were back in our old house and some of the people were the same but the rest of the people were totally different people and they just weren't so cool and they were pretty anti social and it was like "hey, who are you? why are you in MY house?"
cept it's not my house. it's just a hostel
oh well
and now nicole is still there and she is working again for the same dude that we worked for before

and i left with Andy and we drove back up to golden bay (where nicole and i went about three weeks ago) and we stayed in Pohara and saw a kickbutt sunset and went back to Cape Farewell. and now we are in Picton. today we went kayaking on malborough sounds in the little 7 foot free kayaks at the hostel that we are staying in and it was pretty sweet and hilarious and very different from paddling long sea kayaks like i am used to. but fun too. and we hung out on some people's dock for a while but the house looked closed up so probably they didn't mind since they don't know. oooooo such a reble, i am.

anyways
andy gets on the bus tomorrow (from here, picton - such is why we are here) to go tour the south island and i'm gonna go back to blenheim to see nicole for a day or two (holy moly i miss her so much right now. it's so weird not being with her every day. this is the longest that we have been apart in four months.... i feel like i have been divorced or something) then after that i'm gonna head to Christchurch cause i gotta sell m'car before i head out to Perth, Auz on the 10th of June

anybody wanna buy a car?