Dunedin: This weekend

18 Sat-

Sabine and I got up at 3am today because the weather report for Mount Cook has been looking pretty awesome all week.

We left the house at 4am, driving pretty much non-stop all the way up. We did stop for fuel though.

A quick stop over at Kurow

We got to Twizel first of all for a hot drink and a sandwich, then drove up again, arriving at Hooker Track mid morning (around 9am or 10am?). The walk up to Mount Cook started out nice but a bit cloudy, but as the walk progressed the weather got better and better as the sun was burning though. Eventually it was bright and sunny! The views of the mountains were stunning, especially Mount Cook itself! It looked like it had an ice cube on top of it! XD
Also we could hear a few avalanches happening a few times. Even saw a few too. They were not like how you would imagine them to be. They were only in tiny areas where a bit of show would fall off at a time. A bit like like how clumps of melting snow come off a tree, only just on a much grander scale.

It became so clear you could even see Mt Cook from the car park

We drove back and made it home before 5pm. We felt sorry for leaving our cats for 13 hours so we made it up to them by having them roam around the bungalow until 10pm. They loved playing with us.

19 Sun-

Not too much happened today. We played with the kitties for most of the day actually. Sabine had to go to work so I followed. That was only for about 15mins. For the rest of the outing we just went to the mall for a bit.

Back home and playing with the kitties again. In town I bought a laser pointer and its proved to be quite fun with the cats!

I opened a few of my shipping boxes (which arrived at Sabines work on Monday). I was very surprised to see a birthday present inside one of the boxes. It was a Highlanders shirt with a matching green hat. Now I can fit right in! Thanks again Dad. I really wasn't expecting anything like that!

Not too long after that I spotted another hedgehog in the garden. It was basking in the sun. Sabine fed it cat food which it wolfed down. Then as it wandered off we both saw it dragging one of its back legs. poor thingy.

Thunder kitty, Saturday