Nauseatingly Beautiful!

Ok, let us explain that title. While touring the Sir Edmund Hillary museum at the base of Mt. Cook, we saw this description by a female climber in the early 1900’s and decided a) it was an “interesting” descriptor, b) another way to describe the beauty we were seeing, and c) wondered what YOU all thought about it. We made our way back to Christchurch via Mt. Cook. Take a look at the views: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27117889@N08/?saved=1 Other pictures in that set are along the way: glacier-filled lakes were “excruciatingly spectacular”, mate! We also learned some new terms on the way “home” or earlier this week: 1) gutted, as in “I was gutted me when he cut me off in traffic.” (do you know the meaning?). 2) going flatting, as in: “are you going flatting next year?” (posted in the student center: can you figure that one out?), and 3) pigeon hole, as in the department secretary told people that information was in their pigeon holes (Chick, don’t respond to that one!). Final thoughts as we get back to work: we saw many interesting signs along the road. Here is one of many cautioning people to drive carefully: “The faster you go, the bigger the mess.” Words to live (or drive) by!