Hey y'all! I was in Fox Glacier, New Zealand for my 24th birthday, as some of you may know. Here's a super duper quick re-cap of the awesomeness. Fox Glacier is a teeny tiny town on the West Coast of New Zealand and it is literally only one gas station, three cafes, and a couple of youth hostels. As the name suggests, there is a big glacier just outside of the town and Al and I paid to do the whole day hike on this icy bugger for my birthday. Luckily my day in the sun was...well...in the sun, hehe. NZ is probably the rainiest place on earth (besides Vancouver) and yet I totally lucked out. We got hooked up with all the gear and rolled out to the thing about half past nine. We got to walk through the adjoining rain forest and saw some cool plants and such. We walked about as far up the glacier as humanly possible and got stopped by some pretty big glacial high rises (the final ice fall of the glacier) but got to explore some killer crevasses and ice tunnels. The whole six hours were awesome though, and I even had my group/guide sing happy birthday to me with my birthday hat on! Anyway when we got back to the hostel I did many shots of beer and did some shots of tequila while eating my pizza dinner. This was quickly followed by my face getting shoved in my birthday mud cake! Though this was a surprise, my dream was to eat the cake with my hands and thankfully this soon followed. Al and the hostel crew really made it a goody and here are some pics to prove it! Good times.
chillin in a crevasse
the whole-day crew
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