This weekend began with a lovely morning ferry ride from Wellington to Picton. Since it's a three hour ride and we had to be there an hour before the boat actually left at 8:30am, we all basically took turns napping while the a few people kept an eye on our belongings. The ride itself wasn't terribly exciting, but the views from the top deck, especially once we got closer to Picton and started seeing more land, were absolutely beautiful. If you ever have the chance to take that ferry ride, I think it's worth the $54 to see the views and have a much more relaxed means of travel than an airplane. We also were able to get things like ice cream (part of my balanced breakfast for the day).
Here are a few of our pictures from the viewing deck (can you tell we like taking pictures?). There are some cute ones, us doing the Titanic move, etc.
Once we got off the boat and picked up our rental car, we began our journey up to Queen Charlotte Sound. Since the rental car was in my name... you guessed it- I drove a minivan on the left side of the road! Now what most people don't realize, is that New Zealand roads are very rarely straight. On this particular drive, it was an hour straight of serpentining roads on the edge of mountains. Honestly, it wouldn't have been a problem if the car wasn't so much bigger than I'm used to, but since it was a minivan we just had Megan drive for the rest of the weekend. This picture is proof that I really did drive on the left- woohoo!
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