Day 11

I don't remember much of today. We had a 7 hour drive from Queenstown to Fox Glacier. Every time our bus started moving, I would read for a bit and then fall asleep. We're on the westcoast of NZ so it's just raining constantly and there wasn't anything to see out the window. We made a few stops along the way. We stopped at the Haast cultural centre and watched a movies obviously filmed in the 80's. We stopped at a lake side that had HUGE rainbow trout and eels swimming as happy as could be. We also stopped and ran up a trial to a lookout. Or at least the majority of the class did. I was very discombobulated when the bus stopped, waking me up, and then seeing my class run up an impossibly steep trail. I tried to follow, but after 15 minutes at the end of the group, with no end in sight, I turned around and walked back. But really one of the high lights of the day was a visit to the sheep farm. The farmer brought in 40 sheep into a paddock and taught us about the ins and outs of sheep farming. It smells pretty bad at first. But then the sheep settled down and started chewing their curd, and the room filled with the smell of vomit. It was pretty gross.

Also, did you know sheep have tails?

 We had a lovely dinner at a cafe. They made us pasta and warm chiabata bread, and sweet potato and salmon pizza. It was lovely.