It was a sleepy car ride up the western coast to Arthur's Pass from where we made our way east through the Cantebury Plains towards Christchurch. We lunched at the top of Arthur's Pass, one of the most recent highways to be established, finally connecting Westland to the agricultural areas of the country. We were joined by a friendly kea bird who decided that the best way to make sure that it didn't miss any scraps we accidentally dropped would be to hop around our group. It was standing right behind me the entire time I was eating my sandwich in a slightly unnerving way, I was just glad that it wasn't so familiar with humans to try and eat the sandwich out from my hands. Eventually the large, parrot-like bird got tired with our frugal-group (we weren't supposd to feed it) and went to explore the tops of some of the parked vans, startling their human occupants as it poked its head through the windows in search of something edible.
Leslie and I- a LOTR site, finally!
An hour later we stopped at Castle Hill for some impromptu bouldering and general exploring. The unusual limestone rocks have been used in multiple major films including Lord of the Rings.
Jessica and Victoria hard at work on the vegs
At Jessica's flat that night we cooked up a huge Mexican fiesta-meal to celebrate our last night together. 
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