Hello Everyone,

I'm giving Jennifer a break from the blog as she is asleep right now. Anyways, today we continued our drive down New Zealand's SH6. For anyone who will ever visit New Zealand, I recommend to skip Auckland and the North Island and come directly to the South Island and drive from Wellington to Queenstown via highway 6. It's has been absolutely beautiful. Morever, Wellington and Queenstown are far superior to Auckland (another big city!). Wellington is artsy and hip. Queenstown is serene, on the lake, sorta like big bear.

Today we visited the Franz Josef glaciers. We just walked to the observatory since actually walking on ice wasn't worth the hassle to us. Then we drove down highway 6 and passed through a few interesting towns and turnsoffs. One of them happens to be Fantail Falls, a 2 min hike to a waterfall that happens to be surrounded by little manmade stone statues. Very cool!

Anyways, off to nurse by bug bites. We'll be in Queenstown for the next few days relaxing and doing some excursions... will keep you posted.

Here are some pictures from today...in case you don't know, I've been trying to post pictures daily to my flickr account. Just go to www.flickr.com\ruchbum

Jason