Oh Susanna

We were both thrilled to be finally meeting up with Michael's sister Susanne. The unfortunate news was that meeting Susanne in Christchurch coincided with three torrential days of rain. Still we were pretty psyched to have 11 days together to tour the South Island.



First stop was picking up our camper van. Traveling by camper van is pretty popular here in NZ so its been fun to be part of the in crowd. While she's small, we've learned to love our little van.





From Christchurch we headed south to Dunedin where we were pretty much trapped as the hard rains had closed many of the roads. Luckily some family friends of Michael and Susanne were also in Dunedin so we were able to spend some time together, most enjoyably in the Cadbury Chocolate Factory.



While we all had to wear hairnets during the tour, Michael was one of the few who also had to wear one on his beard. And he doesn't even like chocolate that much - a real trooper.



Once the roads were passable we made our way to Queenstown. The scenery was just amazing. While the North Island was much more rolling hills with sheep the South Island has more dramatic landscapes with snow covered peaks and ice blue rivers...and more sheep of course.