Today we got up at 8 o’clock. We had spent the night sleeping in our car on a carpark in Richmond, and at about eight o’clock the shops opened and the first customers arrived.

We decided to walk downtown to the library and to explore some parts of Richmond. After we had spent a pretty long time in the local library we decided to go to Nelson, because I had arranged to meet Luke there this day.

 

 

So we drove to Nelson and met Luke. We enjoyed an awesome time with him and after we had been at a really nice pub, he invited us to his house to take a shower. We were really pleased with that and then we sat on his balcony, enjoying some ordered Indian food. I took chicken Tikka Masala and can really recommend it. It just tasted awesome. 🙂

“It was such a nice day, Luke, I really enjoyed spending time with you in New-Zealand. Good luck with your studies and hopefully we will meet up in Germany or in some other parts of the world some day. “

 

 

 

 

 

At seven o’clock after some good conversations and a goodbye to Luke we took off and continued our trip to Blenheim (one and a half hour drive). We arrived there at night and slept in a dark street in our car.

Yesterday we had spent some time in the Abel-Tasman Nationalpark and went for some walks after we had booked our kayaks for the following day. 🙂 We found some beautiful mussels and shells on the beach, it was low-tide and so we could walk in the sand. 🙂

 

The night we slept in our car again. 🙂

 

Today we got up at 7:00 o’clock, prepared everything for our kayak tour and met our instructor at 8:15.. 🙂 She gave us some important safety instructions.

 

 

 

 

 

When she was finished Tim Lars and me started our kayaking-tour.

 

just beautiful

Our first destination was Appletree Bay. That is a nice lonely beach, where we spent half of our day,  tanned and went swimming. 🙂 After lunch ( self-prepared sandwiches) we paddled to the nearest island hoping to see some seals, but unfortunately didn’t see any. 🙁 Then we just enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the sea and all the small islands around us in the Abel-Tasman Nationalpark. 🙂

 

 

 

 

After having returned to Mahanau beach (from where we had started) we continued our trip to Nelson. We could possibly stay there at Luke’s, a friend of mine, whom I  had met in the meditation course). 🙂

 

Today we got up at 10:00 am. Again we had spent a night at a free campinground. 🙂 We had watched a good movie and enjoyed a funny night. 🙂 We continued our trip to a lookout from where we could see Mount Cook.

Then we fueled up our car and drove to Punakaiki (3 hours drive). On the way we stopped at some beaches to jump into the water, got tanned and ate something for lunch. 🙂

In Punakaiki we visited the Pancake Rocks and the Blowholes. 🙂

 

It is just awesome to see how the rocks have been formed by the power of the water. 🙂

At 5:00 pm we continued to Westport where we wanted to stay for the night, to charge our devices and to skype with our parents.

🙂 By the way Happy Birthday Mum ! 😀

Today I got up at 7:00 am and was picked up by the van at 7:45 am. 🙂 This time I knew that I would jump, because the sky looked just blue and the wind was calm. 🙂 So I put on my really sexy jumpsuit and all my equipment (oxygen mask, helmet, gloves and glasses) 🙂

Then I met my jump instructor. He was called Boris and I had already met him yesterday and had a good conversation with him about what it is like to be a skydive instructor. 🙂 I felt very safe and happy when I entered the plane. 🙂

 

 

On the way to the plane I had a short interview with my cameraman and a small talk with Boris. 🙂 After the plane had taken off I enjoyed a really nice view of the scenery beyond me ( sun was shining, some beautiful clouds) and after ten minutes we were at 9000 ft. high. I had to pull over my oxygen mask. At 10.000 ft. the first skydivers had to jump out of the plane. 🙂 It was funny to watch them fall out of the plane and I had another interview with my cameraman. 🙂 At 12.000 ft we stopped again and some more jumped out of the plane. 🙂

I was the only skydiver left in the plane because my jump was from 15.000 ft and from second to second I got more nervous. Boris strapped me to himself and I sat on his laps. Then we reached 15.000 ft, Boris, the cameraman and I did a HiFi-interview and took some photos and then I had to go to the edge of the plane and had to sit down. 🙂

I thought that this would be the hardest seconds but I felt pretty safe and really wanted to jump. 🙂 So Boris and I jumped after a crazy picture.

The first minute was just awesome. 🙂 60 seconds of freefalling through clouds, the earth getting closer and enjoying the most beautiful view I’ve ever seen. 🙂

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During my freefall my eyes began to get wet and my mouth was trembling because of the 200 kpH high speed. 🙂 It was really hard to breath and in some seconds I didn’t only have pressure on my ears but also had the feeling of being unable to breathe at all. :/ But I enjoyed the fascinating view and had really much fun with Boris who entertained me by some funny stuff on our  way down. 🙂 It was like riding a rollercoaster, I was so light and free, it was just amazing. 🙂 Then Boris opened the parachute and a wonderful lovely feeling returned to my stomach, I was drifting through the air, enjoying the view and finally knowing, that everything went all right. 🙂

 

Then Boris said „Let’s do some crazy stuff“ and so we were floating through the air, in circles, getting faster and closer to the ground. 🙂 I enjoyed the adrenaline rushing through my body and craved for more. 😛 Before we landed I had to lift up my feet, and  then Boris landed us safely on the ground. 🙂

 

I thanked him for this really great experience and that he has saved my life. 😛 Then I went back to the lounge – happy of just having been through the skydive of my life – where the lovely skydive assistents were waiting for me and where I could watch my video. 🙂

 

 

In the video you can see  that I really enjoyed the view… I almost never looked straight into the camera but to the ground which was coming closer (probably that was more important for me than looking good )

 

 

 

At  about one o’clock Lars Tim and I continued our roadtrip to Haast. There we relaxed on the beach and had some lunch. Then we went on to the Fox Glacier. We arrived there after a short drive and after  a short walk ( 1,1 km) we enjoyed an awesome view.

 

Then we drove to the Franz Josef Glacier and there again we enjoyed a spectacular view of the glacier. It’s just fascinating,  that this is a glacier from the iceage.

This day we woke up at 7:00 o’clock after we had slept in the car after the theatre yesterday. 🙂 I hoped that I would have my skydive today and so  I was really excited.  I started my first trial   to my skydive at 8:15. An orange van picked me up and a lovely lady showed me an introduction video and explained everything to me. 🙂

On the way to the airport of the skydive we picked up another Chinese woman, who also wanted to jump today. 🙂 I couldn’t talk much to her, because her English wasn’t too good and I was just enjoying the landscape. 🙂 When we arrived at the airport we got the message, that the skydive was cancelled, because of bad weather ( cloudy and steamy). So I was driven back to town. 🙂 There Tim Lars and I decided to try some mountain-biking.

🙂 It was really extreme mountain-biking in the sticky Forest. It was just awesome to race downhill these small hiking tracks to jump over stones, trunks and wood. 🙂

Pure adrenaline rushed through my body. One jump was really awesome, I was flying for 2 seconds and I was relieved feeling  my backwheel safely touching the ground again.   I challenged myself a lot but still on some mountains I had to give up (we took the intermediate and professional tracks). It really was a funny and exhausting experience passing lots of beautiful look-outs of the Lake Wanaka. 🙂

We returned at 12:00 because my second attempt to do the skydive was at 12:30. The same van picked me up and I was driven to my skydive-centre. 🙂 But it was cancelled again :/ So Tim Lars and I went mountain-biking again. This time we decided to drive seperately because I wanted to jump and to try some extreme stuff and Tim Lars wanted to drive in a more easy going way, take some pictures and didn’t want to jump. So I went on by myself.

After we had returned at 5:30 pm and had given back the bikes we prepared our dinner. Pasta with tomato sauce and sausages.

This morning we continued our roadtrip to Wanaka (1 hour drive)

 

After we had arrived there we wanted to buy some tickets for a theatre play, that we wanted to see and went to the building where we thought we could buy the tickets. We went into a bar, and the people  were really nice and said, that we could use the elevator on the right. So we did. 🙂 We got out and a huge alarm bell started to ring :/ we didn’t know what was going on and just realized that we were locked in the building then.  We tried to use the elevator again to get back  but the alarm system stopped all the other systems and it didn’t work. :/

 

We were trapped in a locked building. After 10 or 15 minutes the owner of the theatre club opened the front-door and we told him our story. He laughed and said, that we can purchase the tickets at 4:00 pm. 🙂 We were really happy to get out of this weird situation and went on sightseeing  Wanaka. 🙂 At 4 o’clock we purchased the tickets for the theatre. Tomorrow at 7 pm we have to be in the Gin and Raspbery Bar.

 

  The weather had changed to sunny by then and we spent the rest of the day on the beach. At 6 pm we drove to our campingground and parked there. I  instantly fell asleep.