My weekend in chch!

My weekend in Christchurch! Last Saturday weekend, my class went to Christchurch for Disney on ice and I was really excited about the whole trip. On the way to Christchurch, we stopped briefly at Arthurs Pass. Fortunately, there was still snow on the side of the road so we could have a snowball fight. It was quite exhilarating! It was also really freezing, so after a while, my fingers felt numb and like they were going to fall off. After a few more stops on the way, we eventually arrived at Te Pīhopatanga in Christchurch, which was to be our accommodation for the next two nights. I felt exhausted as if we had traveled forever. Later in the evening, we left to go to dinner at The Garden City Hotel Restaurant. Dinner was really yum! When we returned to Te Pīhopatanga, we had some biscuits, performed some kapa haka for a little while, played games like rap slap, blind man’s bluff and we made up some random beats. We finally went to bed around 11:00 pm, tired, happy and looking forward to another action-packed day ahead. Sunday morning, we were up early because tonight we were going to Disney on ice! There were a few hours to fill in until the show so we went into the city to the Palms Mall. Everyone wandered off into stores and other shops. I didn't really know my way around the mall so I sat down by a cafe until everyone returned. I did buy some stuff in the end though. After that, we ended up playing netball on a small court near the Margaret Mahy Park. I couldn't wait until Disney on Ice started, it was so close now!! After our game of netball, we went back to Te Pīhopatanga to get ready for the show. We arrived at the stadium and wandered around for a bit, before going in to find our seats. It was a while until the show started so to occupy myself, I went to buy a drink. Finally, the show started. I was only expecting it to be just Moana, but to my surprise, most of the Disney characters played a part in the show! I was amazed at how the actors could ice skate and perform tricks at the same time. When the show stopped for an intermission, I started to feel a little hungry so I went down from my seat to a man selling medium snow cones, I asked how much they were, he said they were 18 dollars! Wow, that was way more expensive than I had ever anticipated. When the show started again, all the Disney princesses, characters from the Mickey Mouse show, Finding Nemo, and Moana took to the stage, It was miraculous! After the show and to finish our day off, we went to Hell’s pizza for dinner, it was very yum! But, I had a small problem, the... restaurant... was... tiny. They could have at least made it big enough to put a bathroom in. I mean who would want to walk halfway down the street just to go to the toilet? Besides that, the rest of dinner was amazing! We returned to Te Pīhopatanga to have some more fun before getting ready for bed around 12:00, but most of us fell asleep between 1-2:00 am at the earliest. In the morning we packed our bags and put them in the van, because today we were traveling back to Hokitika. I had so much fun in Christchurch that it felt kind of sad knowing that we had to go back… although I was excited to go home. On the way home, we found a spot with even more snow than we did on the way there!! So we all got out of the vans and had another snowball fight! After that, again we jumped in the vans and headed home! it was an amazing weekend!! Na Lola.