Arthurs Pass

Today was our final day of our holiday, we headed off relatively early towards Arthur's Pass.

The scenery was spectacular as usual and the little township of Arthur's Pass was super quaint. I hadn't even thought about doing any walks today but when we saw all the cars parked Bart pulled in for me to have a look. There was a waterfall walk that said it was 1km (it ended up being 1km each way 😄). Bart said he'd seen enough waterfalls so was happy to wait in the car. Admittedly I did say it was only 1km, which is what I thought!

So dressed in my jeans and Frankie's (not exactly hiking wear!) I headed off, it ended up being pretty much 1km primarily made up of stairs 😂 when I was heading up a family coming back down looked at what I was wearing and said umm there are a lot of stairs! I smiled and waved and told them that was totally fine and continued on. Which then made me count them. There ended up being 397 steps.

We then continued towards Methven and got stuck in some serious road works! The traffic control lady came along after we'd been waiting for at least 5 minutes to tell us there was at least another 15 minute wait. At least that gave me the opportunity to get out of the car and grab some photos 🤗

We stopped at Sheffield for one of their famous pies for lunch and then continued to Methven where Bart dropped me off and he continued on to Christchurch to drop the car off and then head home tomorrow morning.

The ladies on the committee arrived just as Bart was leaving so I was able to give them a hand unpacking which kept us busy for the rest of the afternoon.Read more