Can't forget Christchurch

I totally forget to tell you about going up to Christchurch with Mom and Dad. This was after Queenstown and before Auckland (the second time). We flew in to Christchurch and then drove from there a few hours to go see some penguins. We went to this little town where you can go watch the local penguins come in from the ocean when the sun is going down.



It was so cool! The penguins in New Zealand are these little blue penguins that are super cute. And you would just see about 15 at a time swim up and hop onto the rocks, then waddle their way over to their little holes in the ground. The penguins make these really loud funny noises, which was a little unexpected. As it was mating season we saw some penguin lovin' (which was so funny).



We also took this amazing scenic train ride up to Fron's Joseph.

Unfortunately we got rained out of going up to the glacier, but its still beautiful there. And we had lots of fun.