Glacial beauties

Things have happened:
1. Couch Surfing: couch surfing rocks. I couch surfed with these really cool guys in the town of Fox Glacier. Not only were they super cool hikers/climbers/mountain dudes, they were all guides or the company I was doing my glacier hike with. They were super cool, and one of them ended up guiding me the next day. I stayed with them for two nights. before moving on to Wanaka.
2. Wanaka: I was only there one night, but it's very pretty. Beautiful lake, nice mountains, blah blah blah, i found nice cafe. Big surprise there. After Wanaka, I went to..
3. Queenstown: yerch. Queenstown would be great...if i had bottomless pockets and wanted to get hammered every night. However, I have increasing shallow pockets and...don't . So i blew a great deal of money on a bungy jump (which was worth every penny), and took a day trip to Milford Sound. Milford was gorgeous, although i wish i would have stayed the night and gone diving rather than done the day trip. Too much driving in one day. There was a small pod of dolphins dolphin-ing about the bow of our boat for some time. It was really cool. After 3 nights i shoved off from Milford towards Lake Tekapo.
4. Lake Tekapo: Is the most spectacular shade of turquoise that you will ever see. And you can see Mt. Cook(new Zealand's highest peak) at the other end of the lake. Lake Tekapo is located in a wise basin, surrounded by mountains on every side. Due to it's remote located and the surrounding geography, it has New Zealand's clearest skies for star viewing. I went night time photo hunting with a guy from Trail BC. I'm not sure if any of my star shots worked out because i took them with my film camera, so I'll have to wait and find out. Today, I travelled to Mt. Cook.
5. Mt. Cook: I caught a ride with the aforementioned Trail BC guy (Kevin) to the spectacular Mt. Cook. It's beautiful from any angle. I have too many photos of Mt. Cook. I went for a short hike and managed to meet up with some other people from my lake Tekapo hostel, who gave me a ride to Wanaka, where i am now.

Well, I'm starting to run out of time and I'm in no way ready to go home...there is still so much i haven't seen or done...I suppose I'll just have to come back. :)
Love you all
Sydney :)