Kelsey Down Under

Kelsey has landed safely in New Zealand. I've given her strict orders to write "blog worthy" emails, so we'll see how that goes. Here is her first installment:

Haha hey Kent. yeah this is a lot of pressure.. blog worthy e-mails??? Well i went up the Christchurch gondola to get a good view of bank's peninsula (that word is dangerous to spell) he was Captain Cook's right hand man, and he saw the peninsula first to C.Cook named it after him (although he made one of his FEW geographical errors as he thought the peninsula was an island) SO i went up there and it was gorgeous and there was an optional "LEISURELY"30-minute hike. So i start off. It was fun! There was a combo of rugged terrain and rainforest, so i kept going. I got to a few peaks and had some wicked-good views, but the trail just kept on going. I got to this point where there were these HUGE left-over bunkers, maybe from colonial times?? not too sure...but when i peeked into one of them a giant bird swooped out at me so i ran away. I managed to meet up with an irish guy and an american guy who were lost (this is at the 2 hour mark, 20-minute-hike my ass) and we try to go back. Well we must have taken a wrong turn because we ended up in a sheep field. They were everywhere!! They were friendly but i didn't want to get too close. So finally we get back to the gondola (4 hours after i went on my "leisurely hike") and we basically crawled to the top at the restaurant and asked for water. It was a wicked good time, but my knee is KILLING me now...hopefully that will go away