hello dear friends.
i'm back in christchurch for a few days.
i've spent the last week touring the north island
with five of my favorite people.
now i'm back in the city until monday morning
when i'll be hopping on a bus
and heading about three hours south to a little town
called st. andrews
where i will be spending a week on an organic farm
playing in the organic gardens, working with bee hives and doing general farm work,
then it's back to christchurch for some exams.
would you like a run down of my week?
i thought so...
we left christchurch around 4 on friday
and drove up to picton to catch the inter-island ferry at 10pm
we arrived on the other side of the cook straight at 1 am
and decided we were alert enough to drive five hours to napier.
we fell asleep in our campervan and car just as the sun peeked over the beach
that stretched out in front of our parking spots.
so we slept for a few hours and woke up
to sweaty sleeping bags and foggy windows.
so we bailed on the cars and cooled down in the water,
played some frisbee, ate some pb&j's.
then we headed into town to find the information center.
on the way we spotted a gypsy fair.
it was a huge group of gypsy caravans parked and out to play.
we wandered around in heaven for a few hours.
rainbows and flowers and peace signs in face paint for the girls,
jousting competitions for the boys.
everyone ate snow cones, i had three bags of cotton candy (you think i'm kidding.)
and we sat in the warm warm sun and listened to our new friend frank
play wonderful bob dylan, cat stevens, and grateful dead covers.
my soul needed to dance,
but try as i might i couldn't convince anyone to join me.
we watched a fireshow of small children
and then gathered up our things and ran away to the wine country.
we had a blast.
such a wonderful wonderful way to kick off our trip.
i have tons more pictures
so i'll probably break them up activity by activity.
wine tour is next!
but off to bed for me.
it's 4 am ( i must be lonelyyyyyy. name that song) and i couldn't sleep
so i figured this was a productive use of my time.
but now the eyelids are drooping
so it's off to bed for me.
see you tomorrow!
c
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