An Unbelieveable Helicopter Flight! First, for those of you who checked yesterday for our blog update and didn't see it, we apologize. The hotel we overnighted at in Christchurch, The George, had a wireless network that was not functioning. This will happen from time to time so be patient and keep checking back. We will update each day whe we have Internet access. Today, our last day in New Zealand, was a wonderful day. We left Queenstown before sunrise at about 7:30am on a bus with a driver, an assistant and us! Guess it pays to go off season at times. Temp was a nippy 27 degrees F. We traveled north along the west coast of New Zealand skirting the Southern Alps until we came to Mt. Cook were we headed up the slope towards the
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