We hiked up a trail to see spectacular views of Fox Glaicer. We saw icebergs floating in the water! We had to hike up a hard part to see the glaicer though. The next day we mostly stayed at home 🏡. We went out to lunch though. We looked at stores but town was not big at all!!! Mom and Dad and I went out to the church and a dog statue. The water is amazing!!!!!!!! There was no DVD rentals 😭. The next day the sun was out and we went back to Lake Tekapo to explore!!

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We had lunch at the World of Wearable Arts museum and we went inside. It was amazing!! People made suits that looked very very hard to get into. My favorite one was one made in the U.S.🇺🇸 and it was made of beetle wings, but we forgot what it was called. Then we watched this short movie that told us who has won in the years. We walked into a big car section. My great great grandpa was a designer for Studabaker. My favorite car was the 1950 Studabaker. It was so interesting!!!  

A few days later we took a tour of the Pic’s peanut butter factory to find Pic himself getting ready for the tour!! We were very lucky 🍀 because Pic usually wasn’t there!!!!!!!! Pic showed us how they made it. We looked at it for a while. The peanuts came from Australia 🇦🇺. After that Pic gave us tastings. We got almond butter and crunchy.  We found out that you can buy it from amazon. I got a red badge that Pic gave to me!!!! It was so cool!!!!!!!

Stew ( our guide) told us about Abel Tasman and we we were off. We stopped at a lot of places to look at wildlife and at one stop we saw the rarest shag! They’re a bird 🐦. It was called the king shag and there was only 640 in the world 🌎! The king shags have pink legs!!! Stew told us about the king shag and how he took a picture of one and sent the picture to his friend and then he got a certificate that said that he expanded the king shag region. They didn’t know that there was shags in Abel Tasman. We saw seals too. There was other shags too. In my opinion the little shag ( that was the birds name) were the cutest shags. They had the weirdest land. They threw themselves into the rocks!! Abel Tasman was so interesting and cool because I got to see so much wildlife from the water!!!!

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The biking company picked us up and brought us to the bike 🚲 place and we picked bikes 🚲 out. Mom and dad talked to the person that gave us helmets for a while. We biked down the road to the nearest winery called Forrest. My mom and dad did wine tastings while I played outside.  After that we were taken to “the machine” ( a harvesting machine) where she told us how it worked. We biked down to the next winery where we ate lunch. I had a Brat platter which my mom  thought was Bratwurst platter! It was good and it had ham, two pieces of salami, cheese, bread, crackers, a chocolate cookie, a marshmallow thing, a gummy, and a Chuck lollipop 🍭( my papa’s name)! We had to bike along highway 6 to get to our destination where there was ice cream! We stopped there for a while. We had the journey back that felt way quicker than it was to get there. We biked to a winery that was the other way for a while. It was closed though.  It was a long day but super super fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!