I found the heat!

Yes, it wasn't natural but I found it. Today I gave myself a fabulous gift...hot yin yoga. After all this hiking and biking and sleeping in the back of a campervan, that was the best 90 minutes I've had in quite a while. I got to stretch. I got to sweat. It was fantastic!

So...after checking out the book/homebrew store in Blenheim we left and headed north west. We're in Nelson now where it's kind of sunny and almost feels like an actual spring and there is a beach nearby. We're even staying in a hostel with beds and free hot chocolate pudding (kinda like super fudgy brownies) and ice cream at 8p.m every night. I'm in love.

We were supposed to hike this morning down in Nelson Lakes. We got up, left at the crack of dawn, drove 1.5 hours and it was pouring there. So, having maybe learned our lessons re: hiking in rain and snow, we drove back to Nelson, walked around, had a great lunch, checked out the beach and then I got to go to yoga. We followed that with tofu stir-fry and heineken and, of course, chocolate pudding and ice cream. It even got sunny again. Tomorrow we're going to groundhog day it and try this hiking thing again.

Speaking of groundhog day, it was daylight savings in NZ today (i.e "spring ahead"). No one on the radio or that we've spoken to seems to understand the concept. It's been kind of hilarious.