Christchurch Day #2

My feet hurt soooooo much! We walked EVERYWHERE today! And in cute flip flops that had absolutely no cushion lol. Not a smart choice on footwear on my part. But they were cute. :)

We wanted to go to the botanical gardens and have some photo shoots there, but it was cloudy and really cold the whole day. :/ Ralph would have liked it, but I was freezing. I tried to pack light for the trip, so I only brought one sweatshirt that doesn’t really keep you warm when you’re walking around outside all day lol. Since yesterday we had a ridiculously big group, we split up in smaller ones today. I went with Heidi and Nissi for most of the day. So we got some hot chocolate in the morning, then went to the botanical gardens for a bit. Heidi and I tried to take some portrait pictures, but it was so cloudy that we soon gave up.

There was supposedly a rugby game in the afternoon that we all wanted to go to, so we walked all the way to this one park, to not find it, then decided to just check out the big stadium they had across town in case one was playing there. Definitely was not playing there, and it was like an hour walk from the park where we were initially, then over a half an hour back to our hostile – all on top of the walking we did all morning around town and in the gardens. Our feet were so sore lol. But we got back and took a nap until the group of ppl who went snowboarding got back.

We ate dinner in the room, then all 23 of us went out to a sports bar for the night to watch the huge rugby championship game between NZ and Australia. That was such an intense game! We got so into it and I didn’t even really know how they played it or anything lol. Ended up staying there for like 5 hours, from start to finish, but it was a lot of fun.

I think some of us are going to to go mass tomorrow at the cathedral – I’ve never been, so it should be interesting. And hopefully tomorrow will be a nicer day, so we can get some good pics at the gardens. We’ll see.

Leah