"Morgan, Sandy, Alyssa and my spring break adventure began with me, Lance, locking the keys in the trunk of our rental car. Thank goodness we soon figured out that we could unlock the trunk. Now with the keys in hand Caleb drove us down to Christchurch where we picked up our van, named “Hippo.”
We waved good-bye to Caleb and here began our journey towards the Milford Sound. But before we left the city we picked up a friend of mine from back home. She and her boyfriend were “woofing” across New Zealand working on different farms. After a short time together we dropped them off following celebrating Easter at the foot of Mt. Cook, the tallest mountain on the South Island. We made another stop in Queenstown and entertained our taste buds with a delicious delicacy, a hamburger, from a local place called “Fergburger”. We then continued on our way to go kayaking in the Milford Sound. The drive itself was amazing, but we had no idea what was to come.
As we were floating across the water we were silenced by the awe inspiring mountains that rose so imposingly out of the ocean surface. We were staring in amazement at the tallest mountains in the world that rise straight out of the ocean. If that was not enough to humble us and make us think of God, we then saw a plethora of shimmering rainbows from monumental waterfalls. Later that evening we played Monopoly with the three gentlemen from Australia, who had been a part of our kayaking group earlier that day, until one o’clock in the morning. But this was the European version of the game, which made it even more enjoyable. After saying our goodbyes the next day we made our way to Dunedin where we toured the only Castle in the Southern Hemisphere as well as touring the Cadbury Chocolate Factory. Before we left Dunedin we could not pass up the opportunity to experience the World’s Steepest Street, which we all journeyed up and down, some on foot and some in the van. We then continued back up the East Coast towards Kaikoura and concluded our break with a night full of conversation around a campfire and sleeping in our tents with the glorious and now familiar Kaikoura mountain range watching over us. As we awoke to a new day our eyes burned with the explosion of colors on the Kaikoura coast that poured forth from the rising sun as it melted away the fading night sky. As we watched, we took one final deep breath in an attempt to engrave that moment into our souls. It was an amazing trip and God blessed us with safe travel and good company."
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