What a day!

We started early to avoid the rain on the gravel road. After 1.5 hours we arrived in Geraldine and stopped for breakfast. At the fuel station I realised my wallet is missing. I started calling places we have been and while driving back I tried to remember where I last had it. We stopped in Mt Somers to check the car again and do some more phone calls but nothing. We waited for another call from the Mt Potts Lodge, where we stayed last night, but at noon, we decided to drive all the way back and check by ourselfs, to be sure before we go to the police. I was getring nervous at that time.

After driving through a lot of rain we reached the lodge almost in sunshine. I went into the room and checked the bed and the floor and then... on the wardrobe on top between the two extra blankets. I was really relieved. We drove all the way to lake Tekapo, where we enjoyed the scenery. It was really windy and we tried to find a sheltered table, which we kind of failed, but we had a nice table at least. After lunch we started to drive to Twizel, where we wanted to stay. Only a few meters after we left lake Tekapo I told Lukas to stop, because I couldn't find any accomodation available for a reasonable price. We checked different areas, but everything close to Mt cook was fully booked. We thought about skipping it and try doing it on the way back, which would have been a detour aswell.

I thought of my 2 friends from Christchurch and with my luck one aunt had a cottage only 40 mins away. It was not the right direction, in fact we drove back the same way again to Fairlie, which is quite close to Geraldine, but we were really happy to find something not to far away.Read more