Day 5- Mt Cook

Magnificent scenery today! If you wanna take a peak at where we were today look up hooker valley and also mount cook! 
Here's my day... (not your typical American day)
We woke up at 6:30 in our room of 10 people and went to the little Meeting room/cabin to eat. Watched the sun rise fom behind the snow Capped mountains one being mount cook. Studied a few different plants that are only found here and then got on the bus and went to the visitors center. Toured around a little then began the adventure.

Began our hike as I normally hike in north Georgia with a little bit of a rocky terrain but nothing serious. Then about 20 minutes in we were hopping from rock to rock avoiding big puddles of mud and then hiked the rest of the way through tons of rocks. We almost fell multiple times! We got to hooker valley which connects to mount cook. There's a swinging bridge that we had to cross over the valley and white water and it was AMAZING!! Then as we were walking a huge boom went off and I thought it was thunder but looked to the left and it was a HUGE AVALaNCHE! Incredible! Our guide was so nonchalant about it just like he is when I get so excited to see the sheep. He finally got annoyed with my sheep obsession and said Caitlin it's not like there arent 30,000 of them everywhere, stop acting so surprised to see them! 
After the awesome avalanche we walked another hour and a half til we got right up close with mount cook. We sat on the rocks and enjoyed our packed lunches and overlooked a scenery that consisted of snow capped mountains, glaciers, ICE BERGS, white water, hills, and a blue sky. All I have to say is... Life is good. 
One guy in our group brought a speedo and stripped down and jumped into the freezing water and tried getting on an ice berg it was epic! After all that we headed back for our 3 mile hike back. Got back to the site and showered in the 5 star camping community showers hahaha then talked some more about tenure review and hydropower etc then had an interesting dinner. Can't say I enjoy the food much down here. Their chocolate is amazing though! I will be bringing lots back! After dinner we hung with the everyone and have just been hanging around, there's a fire going, tons of stars... Perfection! Oh yeah- I'm not sure what's so special about Kate and me but this lady from china asked if she could get a picture with us. We were really confused but... Whatever!
 It's amazing here! I couldn't Expect anything better, this is the most wonderful experience of my life!
I wrote postcards but still need some addresses so facebook me your address if you want a postcard (excluding Tyler, Michelle, Sarah and mom &dad)

Miss and love you guys!

Peace & Love

Caitlin