Hitch Hiking is the BOMBdiggady!

Okay, so the original plan was to stay at the Shaskeys for a week.

Four weeks later and I think it is time to start moving. Don't you?

So out goes the thumb, after a big cryfest with the Shaskeys. And YES, it WAS just some dust in my eye, ok! It was hard, but had to be done at some point.

Tammy's Birthday Goodtimes!

So we got back from that trip with Matt so that we could have a surprise birthday party for Little Tammy Shaskey. Annette had arranged a surprise birthday rabbit shooting party. I almost thought the party was for me!!

So Tammy's good friend Carly came to the house and picked us up and we drove out to the farm where we were going to do the shooting. So where we get there all we had was a 22 and a half dead flashlight. We drove around on the back of this old ute for 45 mintues before we even saw a rabbit and then the flashlight died.

dang.

So we went back and got another one but it wasn't very bright. What are we going to do. So as we are paddock bashing, looking for bunnies, we drove by a friend of the Girls place. Alec was keen to join and he added another 22, a double barreled 12 gauge shotty, and a really awesome spotlight. We soon got three rabbits and took them back to eat. We ate the birthday dinner (no rabbits involved) and then went out again for an hour and only got one more. On the way back we chased a few more trying to get an opportunity for Tammy to shoot one (alec and I had done all the shooting thus far... he he eh..) And we finally cornered one and she got it hanging out of the window of the Little red corolla! It was sweet.

The next day I made the best rabbit in the history of the world. That's right, of the world. it was delicious! And the batch was so big that it fed over twenty people (in the course of three meals or so...)

and that is the story of some more goodtimes

Playing catch up now....

So I will now start t continue what was started as a blog of this trip, not just the first half.

Week three in NZ:

Hanging out with the YWAMers just down the road was awesome, and we got really connected with a Guy from Alaska that wanted to do trip down the west coast of the South Island. So we joined up.

It was a great time and we got to see alot on the drive including the following main thingers that people like to see:

-Castle Hill, where they did some of the filming for Lord of the Rings. Very cool area close to Oxford. I would like to go back in the summer so that I could do some bouldering there. Awesome rocks, but were too icy to climb on at the time.

- Cities such as Greymouth, Hokitika, Haast and other cities that are just cities/towns. Nothing too interesting.

- Franz Joseph glacier and the Fox Glacier. Both have shrunk so much in the last thirty years that they were not really impressive by any means. Beautiful area though.

- On the drive back we covered some ground that was visited on our first little trek down south so nothing new.

Jordan and I gave Matt some space because he needed some quite time, which was cool, so we just got him to drop us off at a couple different camping areas where we could fish. The first was on the Hokitika River. No fish. Second was in Albert Town near the Clutha River. No fish.

These fish are smarter here.

The trip involved alot of driving and hanging out which was still good. Not as action packed as I hoped, but wrong season really. We both really enjoyed hanging out with such a solid guy as Matt. Still good times!