Milford Sound

Another long day on the bus took us to the Southern most part on my trip here to Milford Sound.  It was cool, but after viewing Mt. Cook and being on Thames in the North Island, and falling in love with Queenstown it was  . . . okay.  We didn't go too far out to sea so there were no dolphins- BOOOO!  But I made friends today with a lovely grandma Mrs.Huges from York, England.  She is on Holiday by herself and staying in my same accomodation so we started chatting at the bus stop at about 6am and finished our conversation at 7:30pm when we parted ways when I got off the bus in town.  He daughter just immigrated here to Christchurch and is 44 and just had her second baby who is in the hospital fighting Meningitis.  Please pray for the "wee one" for her!  The cool thing about her daugther's story is that she was off on Holiday in Australia on a bus tour when she was 40 (still single) and there was one stop where her bus met other buses and her future husband struck up a conversation with her and he lived 2 miles from where she did in York back in England!  Sounds like a fairytale huh?  So I really wish her and her babies well. 

So pictures- some requests have come in but I can not oblige because I left my ASB cable at the Vedders.  Sorry kids.  I'll post though as soon as I am back in Auckland for a last "hurrah" for you to fish through while I am on the plane back.  Can you believe it's almost over?  I can and can't.  My stay with Margaret & Graham seems like years ago now but my arrival at the horse stay seems like yesterday. 

Don't worry, I'm ready to come back for sure!  Mrs. Hughes tells me that I'll know for sure if home is home when I step off the plane.  She said "If you think to yourself, ahh, I'm home"  you'll stay." 

So stay tuned. 

I am off to Franz Josef tomorrow (another very long bus ride day) and will be there for two nights.  I am feeling SO much better so I know you guys must have been praying for me.  I really didn't think I'd feel as well as I did when I woke up and my sore throat is gone!  So thanks for the love.

And as always, I miss you all "heaps"!  (Especially my brother who doesn't read this but Brian, I miss you bro!)