Having survived our first night in a youth hostel (bunk beds, shared room of 4, Anne snoring and Kay waking up at 4am with jet lag), we were glad to be picked up for a day's sightseeing with Thimali, one of Anne's best friend from university, who happens to be living in Christchurch. We drove to Akaroa which was about 90km away, through winding roads through beautiful hills with a Lake at the bottom. It looked like Lake Windermere and Ambleside but more impressive!
Thimali told us that there were 200 people who got killed in the big earthquake, there were 2 previous ones that didn't kill anyone. Around 25% of the Christchurch population have moved away in order to find jobs. The ones that have stayed all have things wrong with their houses post earthquake. The tremors are peculiar to Christchurch and happen fairly frequently! Let's hope there isn't one tomorrow!
We also visited a Farmer's market where you got to sample loads of homemade goodies. We could have spent a lot of money if we had spare space in our rucksack and we were allowed to take food through customs!!!
Tomorrow, we might go to the botanical gardens, see where they do punting tours and go to St Johns church in the evening. We have a link with this church as one of Stag's mission Partners Sarah Lyneham is the women's worker here. Hopefully we will be able to bring greetings from StAG.
Signing out until tomorrow!
But before we go: the answer to yesterday's question (about the Rickshaw) was 1914 - We're sure you knew that already!
Today's question: What is the ratio of sheep to human beings in NZ?
verse from 1 Peter (Anne and I are studying this every day) - "Be holy because I am Holy".
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