Day Fourteen January 25, 2008 Friday

Today we woke up at 6:30 in the morning. We were packed up and ready to go quickly, with muffins in the van for breakfast. We all piled into the vans and headed out. We stopped not too far into the drive at a glacial river. It was seriously the color of glacier freeze flavored Gatorade, I wonder if that is where they got the name? We then drove to an actual glacier and took a small hike up to get to a point where we could really see it, It was amazing! Our third stop we made at the biggest glacier of all, it took up the whole side of the mountain, and was all different colors. It was absolutely beautiful. What was really amazing to me was that there was this huge glacier coming down the side of the mountain, and all around it were hills of lush tropical-forest type foliage with waterfalls and sheer cliffs! It was an amazing thing to behold, and really made me appreciate some of God’s finer creations. After the last glacier we had lunch and piled in the vans again. The whole trip took over ten hours, and at least eight of them were in the vans, if not longer. We watched two movies and talked a lot. It goes without saying that we are all extremely sick of each other and ready for this last van ride tomorrow that will finally bring us to Invercargill. When we finally reached Cromwell we lounged for a while, then ate dinner. I played some volleyball after dinner for about an hour, and that was fun. Now I am really ready for bed.