We were up at 7:00 and had our morning Starbucks Via and breakfast of instant oatmeal and fruit. There was a laundry facility on site so we each planned to wash our very wet and very stinky clothes. The rental car company picked me up at about 8:30 and John stayed behind to finish the laundry.
We checked out at 10:15 and headed into town for some shopping. First stop was a camping store where I purchased butane for my stove and four freeze dried dinner for the upcoming backpack trip. Then we found a grocery store for lunch meat, cheese, granola bars, trail mix and other miscellaneous items. I asked for a styrofoam cooler and they had no idea what I wanted. We finally figured out that I wanted a "chilly box". They didn't have one but pointed me in the right direction.
Shopping completed we had lunch and then headed north with the plan to get to Blenheim on the northeast coast. Shortly after leaving Christchurch we saw signs indicating a road closure and detour. To make a very long story short we misread/misinterpreted the signs and ended up with a four hour screwup. There was no way that we were going to make Blenheim so we ended up in the small resort town of Hamner Springs. We got a great room that was perfect for couples but way too nice for us.
Tomorrow we will head to Nelson which is fairly close to the start point of our backpack trip starting Thursday morning.
No pictures today as it rained all day.
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