Our overnight trip.

Kaikoura

6 really great years together

Spectacular Ocean skies

Really good fish n' chips

Love the color and shapes of these Ocean bits

Mike and the sleepy seals

Interesting signage in Kaikoura

A little watefall walk we found

Mike and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary by leaving the boy and heading up the eastcoast towards a seaside town called Kaikoura. It was fun to drive and chat and lazily drive up the coast. We saw some seals and ate some really good fish n' chips.

We were planning to stay there the night (Mike had padded up the back of the Fiat with mats and sleeping bags so we could sleep in the car) but we opted to keep heading North. Within the hour we hit rain--hard rain. Sleeping in the car in the rain didn't sound really enjoyable so we headed east when the road forked.

For the next couple hours it was heavy rain but beautiful and misty and moody. By 8:30 (luckily, the nights are long and light) we made it to Nelson where the skies were clear and found a Turkish restaurant still open and had some really good meals. We had seen a place to park for the night but on the way Mike popped into a little motel to check on room rates and it was good deal (like a Backpackers-basic room and shared bathroom) but we figured that our first night away from the boy, it would be nice to get as much sleep as possible.

The next morning, we checked out the beach and begun the journey back to Christchurch. We hit more rain so we mainly stayed in the car but were content to simply drive and make our way home to the boy. All up our little overnight a couple hours north, turned into an 1000 kilometer roadtrip around the the island.

Good fun.