New Zealand Trip Day 4- Fiordlands & Milford Sound

On our next day we spent the whole day driving to Milford Sound (here is a really helpful site)... which actually means we spent the whole day... Hiking, chasing alpine parrots, playing, and being awed and the ridiculous scenery! This was definitely one of the best drives of the trip! We left a little later in the day, maybe 10, maybe 11... to miss all the tour busses driving in from Queenstown... and sure enough as we were headed in we passed tour after tour after tour of busses leaving... and even one dude that got left by his bus : ( 

I think spring is the perfect time to go to New Zealand! The tourists are not very bad, we had most places in the country almost completely to ourselves! The weather is GORGEOUS! Sure jackets at night, and a few days were kinda cold... but it was awesome! AND there was still snow on the mountains... which just made everything look more epic!

 This is a Kea...he is a crazy alpine parrot known for his curiosity and intelligence...  you are not supposed to feed the Kea...  he tried to go in our car to eat my sandwich... RUDE... I have even heard storys are these dude eating the weather stripping on windows of cars to try to get in. They look cute at cuddly but they are like a foot and a half tall (19in) and run at your face when taking pictures! I love them! AND they have orange feathers under their wings...

This is as some random rapids we found on the way... there was swinging bridge that Kim took my Yoga pose picture from. The color of the water was awesome!

 This is a giant waterfall that we hiked to... well this is the closest we got... anyways its called Humbolt Falls

 And like always... I love grass

This is actually in Milford Sound... The tide was out to we were able to walk a little ways out into the sound.

This is at the Homer Tunnel Nature Track... We went for a short hike here... or shall I say TRAMP, they call hiking tramping, so we would always get questions like "have you done any tramps"... um yes please... where are they?

This is Mirror lakes, one of the first things we did during the day... but it was too windy so we stopped by on our way back out.. and sure enough it was WAY MORE MIRRORY! YAY

We ate dinner at the Redcliff... the restaurant that the cast of LOTR hung out at when filming in the area... and I know why... the food was AMAZING! I think the best we had the whole trip... you can tell by how we ate EVERYTHING!!! I love Kim's face in this photo!

Another traveling to New Zealand helpful tip... it took us dining out three times for someone to finally tell us how to really pay for the food, everyone was too nice to tell us we were doing it wrong. Every single place we ate you leave your table when ever you want and go to the cash register, alot of times at the bar to pay, they already have your ticket and they can almost always just split the bill at the register... oh and always call it a bill not a ticket... they will look at you like your as dumb as a sheep... like my sheep joke!