Escaping the City

Today we needed to escape city life and realize the reason why we really want to live here. Drove to Springfield where we had a coffee and took some pics then we picked up a couple hitchhiking from Turkey who live in Sydney. They are traveling NZ for one week only so wanted to get to Greymouth,we dropped them off in Castle Hill village where we stopped and went for a walk and took some more pics - before heading back to Christchurch taking pic of lake (Lake Lyndon) on way:-) Decided not to take hostel job after careful consideration and looking long term and realizing wouldn't have any holidays or holiday pay - Mark got a few other jobs in pipeline so no worries as yet - something will come up it usually does