Day Trip to Lake Tekapo

Finally! After hearing what a wonderful place Lake Tekapo is from E all this time, I finally got a chance to see it for myself. The time needed to travel to the lake itself was gonna take us nearly 4 hrs to reach, so we got up a little bit earlier this morning to make up some time for it.

9am: E reach our place. Me & mom still busy packing all the things we need to bring for the trip. Towels, shampoo, swim suit (for the hot pool), dumplings, water.. etc

9:15am: left the house. "oh no! I can't find my phone!" *searching the bag like a mad woman*

9:16am: "oh! I found it! is just here =D" "right..."

9:20am: Journey started... Mom felt a sleep, at the back of the car, half an hour later. =D

10:40pm: stopped by Oomaru to visit the Whitestone Cheese Factory. We got to try a whole range of cheese; soft cheese, press cheese or hard cheese, you named it they got it.

lemon cheese cake~ made with their home made cheese.

we even bought 2 more cheese cake back to Dunedin =)

11:20am: Waitaki dam

1:15pm: Salmon farm! yummy, fresh Salmon! =D

because is winter now, the salmons were not very active. Apparently if you come in summer, you can see them jumping around a lot more and very high too.

2:10pm stop by Lake Pukaki for some pictures and also the start of our snow ball fights ;D

mom at Lake Pukaki

2:50: Lake Tekapo. We went to the Alpine Spa for a little walk instead of getting ourself into the hot pool. Mom was pretty insisted on having a private pool, so since they do not have one, we just gonna pass. But I'll definitely want to go back there again.

3:05pm: Went for a drive around town and to the Church of the good Shepherd. Took lots of pictures here. E even made a little snow man =D

3:20pm: tea break at theLake Tekapo Tavern while listening to Michael Jackson's songs.

4:00pm: more fun in the snow

spot E trying to throw a snowball at my mom. he was a dead meat soon after ;D

trying to make a snow angel~ my phone slipped out of my pocket here.

It slides really far away from me, on the snow.

So better keep your phone properly if you happen to make one next time

4:15pm: starts heading back home~