Sunday, August 15, 2010

Day 4 in New Zealand









我有一个未婚妻!! 很好! 我的未婚妻叫莎莎

On the fourth day of our holiday we drove out to find the Christchurch gondola. After stopping in a small French cafe for breakfast and after getting a little lost we managed to find the gondola. I promised not to make it swing from side to side and up we went! The gondola rises 500m above sea level and provides spectacular views of the ocean, Christchurch and the Southern Alps. It took us to a ridge of a crater produced by a huge volcanic eruption. The volcano is now extinct.

We then went for a short walk in the ice around the rim of the crater.

After a "time travel experience" and a coffee we headed back down and then unfortunately had to drive back to the airport. We got lost.

The flight back was as spectacular as ever. We had a perfectly clear view as we flew over the mountains and then it got extremely bumpy. I'm glad to report that Sha wasn't sick, but it was very close!

What a holiday!! :)

3 comments:

faith said...

I presume the Chinese at the beginning of this day's report says something like, "By the way - I'm engaged!" - ?

Alison Hobbs said...

Sorry, you're wrong Faith. According to Google Translate it means "I have a fiancée!! Good! My fiancee called Salsa".

faith said...

Close enough! (.... Salsa???)