Our Holidays..................Hanmer Springs

The ride to Hanmer springs is pretty cool and it only took under 2 hours, we had been to Hanmer two years ago on our other trip of the South Island but we hadn’t stayed there, so we were really looking forward to going back. The first day we went to the Thermal Spring baths, which had rock pools, thermal spas, hot water swimming pools and cold water swimming pools (cold being 27 degrees!!!) and they also had a water slide which the other three went on, me I was too scared what with not being able to swim and all that !!! That night we had a BBQ at the place we were staying and drank loads more wine and played cards all night.

The next day we heading off to this adventure place, where the four of us hired 2 4wd safari carts and we did a safari trail, which consisted of the boys driving like crazy men around a very dusty, bumpy track until we came to the river in which they drove through like compete mad men, with myself and Kirsten egging them on !!! It was nearly a two hour safari and on the way back we came across the river again and this time the lads went totally crazy through it about 4 times too I might add, back and forth, back and forth and we got soaked, as the speed in which they went through the water was coming up over the top of the buggy and these buggies are just bars of steel and are not closed in at any part, so we really did get truly soaked but man it was such fun!!!!

That night it was New Years Eve, so after a few getting ready drinks at home we heading off into town for some dinner and more wine, after dinner we went to the local pub which had a band playing on a truck in the car park. The band themselves were very very cool and the atmosphere was filled with happy drunken people i.e. our kind of people !!! WE danced and drank the night away there until about 2am when we started to walk home with 3 lost English people !!