Farewell Magic Bus! It was a fun ride!

Waiting at the Christchurch airport right now. Got about another 2 hours until we can start checking in.. but really, we don't fly out for another 4 hours so we have a lot of time to kill.

Spent the last 3 days at Mount Cook. It was beautiful up there. The first day, we did the Hooker Valley hike, which was mentioned in my last post.

The second day was the Red Tarns hike, which was crazy hard cuz it was literally steps all the way up the mountain.. and we didn't even make it to the top (maybe about 80-90% of the way) cuz it got super windy and starting snowing or hailing, and we decided it was not safe to continue going up, so we made our way back down, which was considerably easier.

The last day we took it easy and visited the museum and visitor's centre, and had a nice lunch at the cafe at the Hermitage Hotel. Then we took the shuttle back to Lake Tekapo and spent a relaxing night playing uno with our new friend Jen (sp?).. until this asian guy came out from his room at 11pm and yelled at us and another group of asians playing Monopoly cuz he was apparently trying to sleep and we were being too noisy. Terribly awkward. Our roommates that evening went to bed at 8:30pm o_O some people like going to bed ridiculously early I guess.

Today on the bus to Christchurch, Himika and I got to know this Japanese girl Yuki, who spent the year learning English in New Zealand. Was fun getting to know all these people through the Magic Bus and hopefully we'll keep in touch cuz we had some short but good times!

Anywho, now we're off to Auckland for a day and then to Brisbane. Our Magic Bus adventure has officially come to an end.

P.S. My application for graduation has been accepted!! Yay! So I will shortly have my Bachelor of Computer Science - Highest Honours, Cooperative Education. Score! About time too eh..

Panorama of Mount Cook

View of Mount Cook from the Red Tarns track

Me and Hinks with Sir Edmund Hillary

My congratulatory lunch to myself for graduating lol

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