The day has finally come. Tomorrow morning we get on a plane and fly to Auckland. It will be sad to leave the South Island, which has been our home for about 8 months now, but we are excited to see a bit of the North. The good news is that we sold our car! Woohoo! We had a couple people look at it, and a lot of texts asking about it, but we ended up selling it today to this crazy kiwi lady with hairy arm pits. Maybe crazy isn't the right word - eclectic is more like it. She plans to convert it to run on propane and went on and on about her trip through Georgia and the southeast US and all the interesting people she met and places she went.
In the meantime, we're staying our last two nights in a cool little hotel in downtown Christchurch called Hotel SO. It's really trendy and high tech, yet pretty cheap at $99 NZD per night including breakfast and, surprise surprise, free internet! The room is tiny, but its got tons of gadgets that Steph has been experimenting with. The bathroom is this little pod surrounded by frosted glass in the corner of the room and you can change the lighting color in there to about 6 different "moods". There is a control panel by the bed where you can control all the lighting, alarm system, etc. You can set the lights to turn off slowly over 15 or 30 minutes to help you fall asleep. For an alarm in the morning, the lights slowly turn on and if that still doesn't wake you up, the TV turns on to a "wake up" channel with live camera facing the sunrise plus apparently a wake up song of some sort. It's a cool hotel.
So like I said, tomorrow morning we fly to Auckland for 4 days campervan-ing around the North Island. See you in Rotorua!
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