Today Wednesday we set out to visit Mount Cook. Determined to leave plenty of time to get there we whizzed past all the beautiful sights on the way, the lakes and viewpoints. We weren’t disappointed. There was the mountain top covered in sunshine and glistening snow. At the visitors centre there was a huge window looking straight onto the mountain.

I decided to have lunch before we did anything else and we had a lovely salad. Sadly for us while we were eating lunch the cloud descended and the summit was covered. Never mind we still got photos and had actually seen the top.

We followed the road round as far as we could into the mountains and came to a car park. There was a walk up to a beautiful glacial lake. 430 steep steps! It was so lovely up there. I’m afraid the dust was blowing everywhere though and I found it difficult to breathe. But I didn’t have my inhaler with me. Dad helped me down the mountain and as I got to a lower level I began to feel better. I’m pleased we did go up there and I’ve learnt always to have my inhaler with me.

We came back retracing our steps and visited a lavender farm. As you can see from the photos the smells were so good!

We had ice cream flavoured with lavender too, it was so yummy!

Next we visited the church of the good shepherd on Lake Tekapo. The setting and views are wonderful.

We didn’t get back to Timaru until 8.30pm. We had such a lovely day xxx