26.12. - 11.01. goodbye North Island, Hello Soutisland!

written 4 weeks ago.....

Ok, guys, it happened so much!!!!

amazing!!!

We´re sitting in a McDonalds in Queenstown (free WiFi, whooohooo^^) and we´ll have for lunch one of the great Burgers from Ferg Burgers, I´m really looking forward to it!!!

Looking back at the last weeks, I have to say, that there were many downs.... However, I would like to tell you the ups ;P

Mr.McMinn, the unsheepy sheep, Meyner & I

a heart for Lisa <3

Christmas BBQ

I´m soooo sorry, girls ;P

But at first I have to say, that it was really hard to celebrate Christmas without you guys.... I always had to stop myself thinking about home.... Like my (;P) girls are together in Church, singing "Stern über Bethlehem" or my family, sitting together at home, only I was not there.....

Anyway, we had a nice Christmas, I think, as nice as possible, so far away from home and in summer. Honestly, it´s NOT Christmas without at least cold temperatures!!!! ;P

I flew with Vera to Christchurch (26.12.) and we had to stay there for almost 2 weeks until we found a van... We almost had 2 before the one, we´ve now, but the owners told us (1/2 h!!!) before the change of ownership, that they still need it, or that someone else had give them 100 $ more.... Right now we´ve got a Mitshubishi L300 (uncle Tom;P) and we already had to do some repairs AND we try tro sell him again... But for now we´re still travelling with him and we had our first wildcamping night at a "strictly no camping" bay, hihi ;P

New Years eve...

mess... ;P

We met many nice people in Christchurch. A couple from Berchtesgarden (I was soooooo glad about hearing the bavarian dialect again!) Susi, a couple from Seatle, one guy form Israel (Eilan) and Maritn, another German guy. We already met most of them again, only Martin is missing.

YES, I AM crazy!

May I introduce? Uncle Tom

Akaroa, Lighthouse

view out of Uncle Toms´ window, first morning

Little blue Penguin

Ok, after we bought the van, we traveled to Akaro to swim with Dolphines. Hector Dolphines, the smallest Dolphines in the world. They are very tiny, almost like a cuddly toy, very cute! Akaroa itself is a nice town, actually it´s called the frenchest town of New Zealand and we exploerd the area together with the Israleli, who joined us for 3 days.

Than: back to Christchurch to get a new starter for the car. I´m still surprised how nice the Kiwi mechanics are! they tell you, just straight away, well, go to that and that garage, it is cheaper for you! And that happened at several garages (yeah, we know quite a lot by now...^^)