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On Thursday we went to Christchurch to go on the gondola. The gondola went up the hill pretty fast. We got up to the top of the hill and looked at all the snow capped mountains. We went into the café to have some food. Then we left the gondola and drove to Lake Tekapo. Then yesterday we went to Mt Cook to have a look at the glaciers in the glacier lake. That lake was built naturally in the last ice age where a lot of ice came rushing down the mountain and pushed all the rocks on the ground that made a wall. Then when the ice melted a lake was made. Over time the glaciers then were rubbing the rocks together and made a fine coat of powder that made the water look milky. The water was 2 degrees. It takes 300 years for the snow and ice at the top of the glacier to reach the lake below. Large icebergs break off from the glacier and float in the lake. They take about two years to melt. One of the ice bergs was 80 metres long and only 10% of the ice berg appears above the surface of the water. Then we went back to the cabin where we stayed for the next two nights. Both nights we went to the thermal pools and swam in hot water under the stars.

Today we drove to Christchurch and arrived at our hotel room. After we arrived dad and I drove around looking for a car wash that you can do by hand but they didn’t have any so we had to use the automatic car wash. From the inside of the car looking at how the car wash works was really awesome. Then we came back to the hotel and went to the spa and pool. After the swim we went to dinner and I had pork fettuccini. Then after dinner we came back and packed for the flight on Sunday. We have to get up at 3.00 in the morning to catch the 6.00 flight home.

I hope this works.):

Hey Jack! When are you coming home?

How do you get the emotions because it looks so cool

Today we woke up at 7:30am to pack up and go to the world’s longest and fastest flying fox. That was great because the highest speed we got to was 94.4 kmh. It is 1.6 km long. We got to have two turns because there was noone else there. We then had to go back to Nelson to the WOW Wearable Art Museum which is all about dresses and cars. Then we left the museum to go to Christchurch. That was a 5 hour trip. Half way there we stopped at Kaikoura where we saw some seals. They were all lying on the beach and rocks which was just next to the road. We stopped to have a closer look and one of the seals chased Sam around the car, barking and snapping at him like a dog.

Hi Jack,
We have Mrs Murphy tomorrow. I’m nervous to see what will happen with our class but I will fill you in on the details. But I hope you are having a good day, shame you didn’t go to Melbourne for Melbourne Cup.
Goodbye =)

It feels really ordinary without you Jack, because you aren’t there to laugh when Rhonda tells her jokes. I was wondering what horse you were going for in the Melbourne Cup because my horse won.

Hi jack
We all miss you….well I do. Anyway how are you? Are you having lots of fun? I can’t wait until you come back. I have so many questions to ask you. As you may already know our HISE unit is on Global Connections, and do you know that we are globally connecting by talking to you like this? HOW AMAZING! Talk to you soon. BYE
xxx
mikky

Hi Jack, Mrs Stenning needs your help to connect her laptop to the internet. Can you give me a few tips to help her. I tried turning off the air port and turn it back on but it still doesn’t work.

Today we had to book out of the cabin at 10:00, but before we left Sam, mum and I jumped on the jumping pillow. The pillow was about 5 metres high and 20 metres long. We left our cabin and went to Wellington to go to the Maori museum and to go to the South Island. When we got onto the boat we drove the car on while the trucks came on at the level above us. But we were on the level where the trains come on. Unfortunately there were no trains on our boat. We walked up to the top and sat down next to the window. Mum and I then walked outside to watch and feel the boat move off the dock. It took 3 hours 15 minutes to get to the South Island. The water was hitting the boat and making it hard to walk on the boat. We docked at Picton and then drove to Nelson which was a 2 hour drive through the windy roads.

While you are in New Zealand we have Musica Viva tomorrow and it is going to be about forty degrees. What’s the temperature in New Zealand?

Hurry up and come back if you haven’t noticed I’m waiting and I’m tired of waiting so hurry up and come back:(

I miss you

I wonder if this works

Today we went to the trout farm where the trout are about 50cm long. When you threw a little rock into the pond where the little trout were, they would all think it was food so they all fought over it and it looked so cool. Then we went to Mt Ruapehu and the top of the mountain was covered with snow. Mum and dad went to reception to ask if the chairlift was working and it wasn’t and she said it works on the other side of the mountain. When we got over the other side people were skiing and I asked if we could ski but it was too late and mum said if she had known she would have planned a day of skiing. But just going up on the chair lift was really good because we were 2300 metres above sea level and higher than the clouds. The top of the mountain is nearly 2800 metres above sea level. Then on the way to our next cabin we stopped at Gravity Canyon and went down in a chair 80 metres off the edge of the bridge and stopped just above the river. It was fun.

Happy Halloween Jacky

Today we left our hotel that Mum won in the competition and left to go to Rotorua. On the way we stopped at the Agrodome to have a ride on the agrojet and freefall extreme. We did the freefall extreme first. That was awesome because you put on a jumpsuit and go outside, then you crawl onto a net above a giant fan and float in the air. The people who run the ride throw you around for 5 minutes. That was really fun but then we moved to the agrojet where you are in a jet boat where the driver went around corners really quickly. If you are on the side your neck gets thrashed around. Then we left the agrodome and travelled down the road to Skyline where you go up to the top in a gondola and then you can go on some luge rides that go really fast down the hill. I went on the advanced course and I went around the corner and went on 2 wheels and then could not turn and went straight into the sand bunker and almost went on the edge of the hill. Then we left to go to the thermal area called Hells Gate. This place had the most discusting smell and you could swim in mud that is heated by the molten rock under the ground like at the beach but because the gas bubbles at the beach were so small they did not smell. But at Hells Gate it had massive gas bubbles so they smelt really bad. We also got to go in a thermal spa and it smelt bad too.

Today we left to go to the Hot Water Beach where there is some molten rock under the sand. When you dig a hole in the right spot the water is hot. The temperature of the molten rock is 170 degrees and the water temperature can reach 60-65 degrees. When you sink your feet into the sand the warmth burns your feet. Mum put her foot next to the rock where the heated gas came out of the sand and the water was boiling and she burnt her foot. Then we left the Hot Water Beach to go to Cathedral Cove but to get there you had to go on a 35 minute walk. It has a massive hole through the rock that looked like a cathedral. There was a waterfall there and I got drenched and had to walk half way back with no shoes on the rocky path.