AHHHH! I'm starting to get my photos and my stories jumbled together!!! I suppose it was only a matter of time until i screwed it up ;). Just incase your looking a the pictures wondering what the heck is going on. The shell looking things with the bright colors are called KAUA shells and they are all the rage here. The locals harvest and eat the meat out of the shell. Which incidently tastes (and looks) like bacon that was left on the table uncooked for 5 months. It was quite possibly the most vile thing i have ever tasted... The consensus was the same among the entire group! Anway, they use the shells to make jewlery, spoons, letter openers, golf balls, twizle sticks, ect ect ect. They look pretty neato though!
The pictures of the fire come with story too....but what picture ever comes without a great story! Enroute to Kaikoura we learned that there was to be a HUGE Maorai festival in town that night with a free concert (score!). The band was called Salmonella Dub and they are apparently huge here, kindof a raggae techno mix not exactly my fav...but the price was right! Anway, there's a girl who we've traveled with on our bus for a few days. Her name is Trish (see girl under tractor tire in picture) and she, for lack of a better word is "fun." An example being, convincing the people at the bungee jump place to let her go for free if she went naked! So, she brung her "devil sticks" to the concert and put on a show to go with the music! These are my renditions of how it went down. Pretty cool!
As of now we've officially left the south island via ferry (4 hour ferry i might add, ugh!). We arrived in Wellington (the capital of New Zealand...remember that, it will be on the test later).
Btw. I expect too see that super zoom picture of my face with the vinyard in the background to be the desktop picture of eveyone who knows me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! j/k
