Dunedin

So this weekend I got to travel down to Dunedin and spend some time there. We took NakedBus from Christchurch down to Dunedin, and it was about a 6 hour drive. We took a break in Ashburton and in Oamaru, so that was nice to kind of break up the trip. We left Lincoln at 6:20am on Saturday morning, left Christchurch at 8am, and got into Dunedin at 2pm. Dunedin is like the San Francisco of New Zealand, so it took us like 30 minutes of walking (all STRAIGHT uphill) to get to our hostel. We stayed at Pavlova Palace, and everyone was super cool there! Every single person was like from Germany. Well after we put our stuff down we walked into town and took a tour of the Cadbury Chocolate Factory, which was super cool!! They have the largest chocolate fountain in the southern hemisphere, so that's pretty cool. We also got a bunch of free chocolate, including liquid chocolate samples (TO DIE FOR). It was a 45 minute tour, and I'll include some photos below.

These are all chocolate bars!

After Cadbury we just walked around town, admiring all of the super cool architecture!! Most were old churches still being used, but they were all incredible.

When we got tired of walking we found our dinner spot, a delicious Irish place called the Craic Irish Tavern, got some drinks, and shared some Guinness stew pot pie for dinner <3 

We were pretty tired after all of that so we decided to go back to the hostel where we met some pretty cool Germans, and a very lovable cat. We named it "Little Nugget".

The next morning we got breakfast at this AMAZING little hole in the wall cafe, I got a homemade bacon muffin, and freshly squeezed pear-mint juice. Oh, and scrambled eggs. Absolutely incredible.

We stopped by the park after breakfast to enjoy the sunshine and relax a bit before our long ride home.

We boarded the bus at 2:20pm, got into Christchurch around 8:20pm, and got back home in bed around 10pm. It was an incredible weekend, and I had the awesome company of my friends Lizzie (from Oregon, goes to University of Idaho), and Amanda (from Colorado, goes to Colorado State University).

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYUv-aNtO_M&index=2&list=PLzU_b2847hsr8MHsS1AqrDGFvdBSYNrt9