Fork farm, flat tire, hitch hiking?

Friday may 21st
-got up after a night on the town in queenstown nz at about 6:15? Ran to mcdonald and grabbed non american mcdonads food and loaded the bus. It was a longggg bus day! We were sad to leave nomads hostel and the city of queenstown but still had an awesome day! 
We first stopped at Fork Farm. The farm is known for it's sustainable farming techniques and the couple who owns the huge piece of land has farming down to the t. We rode the bus around their property because it was so big and the farmer got on the bus and gave us a tour. They had thousands of sheep, cattle, a wine vineyard, horses, dogs (who are trained to herd the sheep), bulls, and deer. They showed us how they herd the sheep and it was hilarious! They have trained their dogs to bark certain barks and when they do that they run around the sheep and bark at them and then sheep runnnnn! It's so funnyto watch because the sheep will hop on each other because there won't be enough room. I have videos so you'll be able to see what I'm talking about when I get back to Georgia in 3 weeks! So we walked around the while farm basically stepping in sheep poop the entire time... The bus smelled horrible after that! We then headed 40 miles to a tiny town where Andy, our bus driver, is from. We went to the one cafe and had lunch... Nothing special. Drove through gorgeous scenery- which there are no traffic lights or highways. We stopped at one the other day and were so confused why we stopped, it was literally the first time we had ever stopped at a light or seen one! 
Next we stopped at the beach!! It was the first time we saw the coast, so really cool! The rocks on the shore we amazing! They were basically all pancake rocks! Ok so we were about an hour from fox glacier the next place we were heading to and we are all asleep and the tire on the bus blew! So we pulled over in front of a green park sign which we stop at every hour on our bus rides for all the lectures and plant lessons or hikes we have! So we were all so mad thinking we had a lesson! Then Andy said we had a flat and it would take an hour to fix! Soooo Terry(our new Zealand expert who was hired to travel the entire south island with us) took us for a "easy little walk." We walked through literally an entire path of mud! Lots and lots of it! We turned around and walked back to the bus bc or once this walk was optional! Got back on the bus and got to fox glacier. We went to dinner with the group and had the most amazing italian food ever! After dinner we were all exhausted so we went to sleep! 

Peace & love
Caitlin