Te Anau, Milford Sound, Invercargill

So Sunday we had to be up bright and early to get the new Stray Bus, 8am out of Queenstown. We woke to beautiful snow covered mountains; it was the queenstown i saw in pictures and here I was, leaving it. But at least I wasnt getting back on the crap bus, this time Summer and i boarded a proper Stray bus with Prince, our new driver. He is way better than Dodgy Dave. Good music is always playing, he is funny and not in a stupid tour guide way, and every morning he playes us some Adam Sandler, more specifically the song "at a medium pace" (for those of you who know this song, not necessarily one to wake up to but funny nonetheless) He definately evokes a posotive additude in the bus. So we left Queenstown and headed to Te Anau to book our Milford Sound cruise. Our hostel was in Te Anau but we wouldnt go there til later. The drive to Milford sound was amazing. Towering snow capped mountains, huge lakes, stretched fields, it was just beautiful. If there is in fact magic in New Zealand, i have no doubt it lives in the Vally of 1000 falls. This place sneaks up on you once you've passes through the 1k tunnel through a mountain. you are in darkness for about 3 mintues but like a tidal wave of grey stone and emerald forest the valley envelopes you. Water falls everywhere, not the huge rushing ones but hundreds of little ones falling from every direction down towards a curvey road (used for a lot of car commercials), it was just gorgeous. About an hour later we pulled into the warf where we were to board the Milford Monarch for a 2 hour cruise through the Fjiords. Like i expected, beautiful once again. Just so grand in size it was intimidating. We saw some dolphins playing in the wake of the boat while we enjoyed our complimentary coffee and tea. We headed back to Te Anau and realxed for the night in a hostel the Stray guides refer to "hotel le Wank" because everyone gets their own room. We made dinner, watched Kill Bill and went to bed.
This morning we woke up to freezing temperatures, i mean its been cold but it has been hanging out in the mountains, this time it was under our feet. We drove to Invercargill, the southernmost city in New Zealand. Its a really cool place, the architecture makes it so. The buildings look like they have been taken from every part of the world and every part of time but they are filled with common shops. The dairy looks like a bright yellow mexican church, the bank looks like a blue texas saloon, there are shops that look like they could be in the victorian era (but they are brightly colored aswell) its just a very cool looking town. HOWEVER, it is anzac day today (like veterans day) and everything was closed. So Prince took us down to the wharf for spectacular 360 degree views, we hiked a bit through a forest and around the coast, people tried the world famous bluff oysters and then came back to the hostel to hang out. Summer and I got a late lunch/dinner and now im here. Tomorrow we are going to Dunedin, but im not sure if we can go to the cadbury factory because we are getting in kind of late.
sorry this is so long, there were no computers in Hotel Le Wank. Talk yo you all later!