Our last day on the piste was spent with a very short lesson on some rock hard snow/ice, followed by a great afternoon with myself and Jen finally doing some blue runs together. I've finally managred to master the turn in on my toe edge, but, alas, not at great speed, these things take time. Helen and Rich also progressed to a blue run in the afternoon, so we were all quite chuffed. In the evening, after a great pizza at 'Winnie Bago's' we all had a farewell drink as we're unlikely to meet now before we get back to the UK - they've got another 4 weeks or so in NZ and are then doing a different route to us in South America. There is a possibility we might meet in Quito just before Xmas but that's about it. Seeing as though they're going ot live 20 mins from us in the UK we're bound to stay in touch.

So, farewell to Queenstown, until Saturday at least when we're popping in to meet up with an old family friend who emmigrated to Christchurch from the UK a few years back. We are now in Te Anau which is basically the last village before the road to Milford. We've booked on a day trip to the Sounds tomorrow as the road has recently reopened after 5 days shut due to the risk of avalanches.

Just 4 pictures to show...

The four of us in Queenstown, some of the Hector's dolphin



Me in Pupu Springs, and us skiing in Queenstown