Christchurch Bus Tour!

So yesterday (Sunday 02/22) I got to go on a bus tour of Christchurch (which the locals just write as ChCh). This was a free event through LU, so that was great. I went with my friend Amanda (also from CSU), and Rebecca (Kiwi). We first went through the actual city of ChCh, stopping at the ChCh Botanical Gardens, which I'll post pictures of below. It was the 4 year anniversary of the earthquake, so people were honoring those affected by floating these beautiful flowers down a river/creek.

After the gardens we went more into the city area, stopping to see the new cathedral (the old one was famously affected by the earthquake) pictured below. Unfortunately we couldn't go inside due to a concert, but they had some lovely stained glass windows.

From here we went to the pier in ChCh and ate lunch there. I wasn't too hungry so I got apple pear juice and a caramel bar I couldn't even finish half of (SO RICH).

It was a very grey skies kind of day, but the ocean was a really strange green color! My ocean back home is super dark blue so that's kind of cool, even though they're technically the same ocean ;) Well after ChCh we went to some AMAZING surrounding towns, including Lyttleton and Sumner. We stopped on the side of the road for pictures, but didn't stop for touristy things otherwise we were going to miss dinner.

That was pretty much it! Not incredibly in depth, but it was so nice to be able to see some of our surrounding area! I really want to go back to Lyttleton and Sumner, both were very scenic and cute towns. I hate big cities, so these were more my pace :) Oh and here's a nice sunset view from our kitchen window!

Still LOVING it here! Everyone is incredibly kind and friendly. New post to come soon on classes: week one!