Welcome to the South Island

Day four got off to a bad start. We woke up to wind and rain at 6am, aching and uncomfortable after sleeping in the car. Let me just say, it wasn't particularly the best set up. Our car, a small hatchback, was barely comfortable enough with all our luggage when we're sitting upright and driving. Sleeping was a whole new experience. Tom, the biggest, got the passenger seat, David got the Drivers seat, and I (not shock) was dubbed backseat bitch yet again. Which would have been fine, if the guys hadn't put down there seats all the way! The car wasn't big enough for me to stretch my legs all the way, but there wasn't room to curl up either. And, they bitched all morning about my snoring. Needless to say, nobody was very pleased that morning.

We headed into Wellington, but everything looks much less impressive with such horrible weather. Even the locals were going on about how they haven't had such bad rainstorms at this time of year in ages. So, we went to buy our ferry tickets, then went for a quick coffee.
I should mention that nobody had cell phones, so the situation that proceeded was not particularly ideal: We parked the car in one of apparently three of the exact same car parks, then ended up seperating for about an hour. Me and David both got back to the car alright, but somehow Tom managed to get lost looking around in the other two car parks. Long story short, we almost missed the ferry. And yet, we didn't learn our lesson for the next time we got lost... But that's another story.

The rest of the days events weren't very exciting: got on ferry, drove to Nelson, parked the car and went to a bar. However, waiting in line in the car at the ferry was definitely the highlight! We had been waiting for ages, and for what I assume was out of boredom, Tom started honking the horn. And people started honking back. So, of course, he started honking a tune, to see if people would finish the "song." No joke, in about 5 minutes we had almost a quarter of the cars honking the same tune simultaneously. I was actually crying I was laughing so hard.

So, for such a bad start, the day definitely got better as time passed. It was a sign of good things to come on The South Island!