Okay I have way to many pictures from my weekend away in Christchurch to post online but here are the quick highlights.

At 9am on Saturday I flew to Christchurch with my mum for the weekend.

Upon ariving the first thing we did was go to a wildlife reserve.

It was kinda like a zoo but only featured New Zealand animals.

It had three sections: Wild New Zealand, Agricultural New Zealand and Bird New Zealand or something like that:

Wild NZ was the best of the three sections.

First I made friends with a very friendly wallaby. I don’t normally call things cute. But this guy was very cute.

In the Wild New Zealand section they had an old remote tramping hut. So just to show you how cool NZ tramping is here it is from the outside, and below from the inside:

And most importantly the out house:

The Agricultural New Zealand section was cool with lots of farm yard animals. I mistook a donkey for a large sheep. A black goat tried to make friends with my camera and a very friendly clydesdale horse also tried to eat me and my camera.

In the birds section I got to see up close a number of Kiwi, and other NZ birds including our famous Kea or Green Parrot:

And a Morepork:

After the adventures at the wildlife reserve we went and looked at the centre of Christchurch including the Square, Lincoln University, and New Brighton beach.

On Sunday we headed to Lyttelton through an awesome tunnel and then back over the Port Hills. After that we decided to head out to Mt Hutt for a look. Little did I know that the access road to Mt Hutt was a 20km dirt mountain road, and I only had a 1000cc rental car. Fun!

This is coming down the road. It was plenty wide. But really rough and bumpy.

Mt Hutt Ski Field

The Snow Bunny in his natural habitat.

Okay the weather is packing in for the weekend so if I want to go skiing I must do it tomorrow.

That means a 4am start to my day.

It is currently 9.15pm and I still have to complete packing, take a shower, load the car, and go to bed. So long Auckland, the Internet, and work for at least the next week and a half. I don’t even have a date that I will be back. It is so great!