May 31 - Wellington to Nelson

Another day, another early morning. It doesn't help that for the second day in a row one fo the girls sharing the bunks with us felt it necessary to turn on all of the lights in the room while she was getting ready. Couldn't tell you much about her, she never said hello mor even looked at us for the 2 nights we shared a room together. You would think that while travelling she would know the hostel room drill. It goes as follows...
1) You or the new person walks into the room with piles of bags.
2) "Hello, my name is Sara."
3) "Hi, I'm (insert name)"
4) "Where are you from?"
5) "(insert country), I've been traveling for x number of days/weeks/months. Where have you been?"
6) And on the cycle goes, so that you know the basics of the people you will be sleeping with for the next night or two. It is only the nice thing to do.
Anyways, to the ferry to check in luggage in exchange for plastic reusable boarding passes (ingenious).
The ride itself travels through beautiful scenery which reminded me of the Cape Breton area on the east coast of Canada. Perhaps even the thousand islands if that's a better point of reference. The view was good enough to stand out in the freaking wind for hours and taking countless pictures. Mel went photo happy.
Quick bus off to Nelson, yet another 'montrous' town. In good hostel nature this is what I found out about the people I was rooming with for the night...
Yos (Jos) from the Netherlands, is here for the long run and wants to get a job locally gutting fish, David is from Australia does road work and has a formal profession of truck driver, 3 South Africans (sorry don't remember the names) are around for a few weeks to go on long energy draining tramps, and my room is colder than a nun's bed.
In the kitchen we met 2 more Irish travels, and yes they were making potatoes as well. The English sausages they made were disturbingly cheap, the outside shrank while the filling expanded to create the illusion of complete disgust. It was at least a conversation starter... Anyways they were cool and made for good convo.
Ok, the free time is now up so I'm off until tomorrow, when there will be even more updates.
Love ya all,
Booth