Early to bed, early to rise…we were all up at 5:3oish this morning, packed and headed off on our 8hr drive back up the South Island to ‘Hamner Springs’, about an hour north of Christchuch. Starbucks was closed, all the cafes were closed, so we ended up having the breakfast of champions…servo pies!
After a sleepy hour or so in the car we had a little navigation issue but all was returned when we switched seats 
We arrived in ‘Hamner Springs’ at about 2ish for a much needed bathe in the Thermal Pools.
They were a lot busier then I imagined, in fact they were packed….old people everywhere. We quickly got changed and ran to the closest pool, Em moved over to a hotter pool and us boys stuck it out in the 35 degree pool, lucky we had Damo to keep away the oldies
Em finally got us to move to the hot pool and I am glad we did because by that time it had dropped another 3-4 degree’s outside.
All in all it was a really good experience only downsides would be the foul smelling sulfur coming from the pools and the old naked man in the change room drying his DT’s.
After that we headed back to our hotel, had beers got changed and headed back to the pub for some dinner, we would have stayed except Australia was playing New Zealand in the Rugby Union and the place was packed full of ‘All Black’ supports as you could imagine. So we got 3 packs of Apple Schnapps (poor take-away choice from the pub) and headed back for a night in getting drunk and watching ‘Dante’s Peak’ on VHS.
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