I am currently in Christchurch! We have started our bus trip around the South Island of New Zealand. We started going east and spent our first night in Mt. Cook. Mt. Cook is a mountain covered in glacier and we had a great afternoon where we hiked to a great view of the glacier. Then next day we set out for Rangitata, which is a great location for rafting. The weather has been cold and rainy so we went horseback riding and crossed a river that got up to our feet. This morning we drove to Christchurch and walked around the old city that was destroyed by the earthquake. Most of it was blocked off, but we were able to see the botanical gardens and a new shopping center that has recently sprung up. Tomorrow we will take a bus to Akaroa which is on the coast of the Pacific ocean on land that was made by a once active valcanoe. The bus trip will bring us north and down the west coast and near glaciers. We are excited to see more of the south island!