Happy Thanksgiving to All

To all my friends and family, I want to wish all of you guys a very happy Thanksgiving. Hope everybody has a great time and please eat some turkey for me. I am going to try and find some turkey for dinner tonight.

Today, I did the long awaited glacier (or as Elliott and the kiwis refer to it as the Gla-C-Yer) heli hike. It was absolutely everything I had expected and more. It was the first time I have been on a helicopter and the views from the chopper were absolutely stunning. A group of 12 of us, led by our guide Rich, took the 10 minute helicopter flight and than strapped on our crampons and hiked around the glacier for 3 hours. Nobody was hurt in our international crew of folks from Denmark, Germany, England, Scotland and me being the lone representative from North America.

Right now, I am pretty exhausted. The hostel here in Franz Josef is very nice. I am sharing a room with an asian girl and an irish guy. The Irish guy is super cool and we will grab a beer later before meeting up with a german girl who I met on the Heli Hike. She is very cool and also is headed to Queenstown tomorrow. As for the Asian girl, she was extremely bizarre. When walking in the room, she didn't even lift her head up from her book and acknowledge me or the Irish guys existence. We than talked for 30 minutes in the room and she never even looked in our direction. Oh well.

Tomorrow, I jump on the bus at 10am and head to Queenstown, the adventure capital of the world. I may do the world famous AJ Hackett bungy or the jetboat ride. Not sure of which first, but I must admit the bungy jump is already scaring me half to death.

I am off for now, but Happy Thanksgiving to all.