Dear Diary,

[chapterfourteen]

I'm here in Queenstown, New Zealand, after an amazing Christmas week in Christchurch and another four days of driving around the south island. It's been so wonderful to finally meet David's family and friends and to finally see where he grew up! It's also so beautiful here: fields of sheep and huge snowy mountains and crashing waves on rocky beaches. I've had much too much ginger beer and red wine and even got a bit of a tan. Today we went jetboating on the Shotover River and I screamed and screamed and got soaking wet. It's been a lovely holiday so far...

Back to Christchurch tomorrow, and then a week of skydiving and whale watching and lots and lots of lounging around...