I must come back!

It's official, I will have to make a return trip to NZ. I know, it's a burden. :)
We went out to Milford Sound today and it was beautiful, but it was socked in with clouds (as it is 2 out of every 3 days). The photo at the top of this blog is of Mitre Peak and that's what we went to see today. We could just barely make it out through the clouds, but not well enough for a photo. The drive there and back were nice. The rain made the "Valley of a Thousand Waterfalls" completely live up to its name! I did not take many photos because I think it would have been hard to capture how amazing it looked. There were some ravines that put Tuckerman's in size. And it was just one huge cascading waterfall after waterfall.
Queenstown is a very cool little city. I could definitely chill here longer. We've had quite the experience here in NZ. We've seen the cities as well as some of the remote places like River Valley where we had the place to ourselves.
We head up to Christchurch early tomorrow morning, spend the day there on Thursday, and then Mark departs already on Friday! I cannot believe how quickly these three weeks have gone by!!
Our bus had a little gathering last night because it's essentially been the same group for the past week, and many of us for the past two weeks. Flea, our driver, is also the photographer for the company, so she put together a slide show and also gave us individual cds with photos on them. I am convinced that we had the best bus driver! There was also karaoke last night. There were two professional musicians on the bus from England and one of them sang my favorite karaoke song with me- Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf. I must say, we put on quite the show! :)