Mt Taranaki and van trauma

The extent of the meteorite hit

Mt Taranaki

In case you thought we had had enough of mountains, we haven't. On our trip up from Wellington we pulled off from Stratford (named after Shakespeare's birth place) and headed to Mt Taranaki. It pretty much rises up out of nowhere and is really impressive and to top it off, snow capped. Beautiful! We did a couple of walks and then headed North on our mission to get to Auckland for the Rihanna concert! In the process our windscreen got hit by a stone and caused a chip about 50p in diameter. I start panicking and worrying we're not covered on the insurance, which Nic assured me we were, and so I calmed down. Then we get hit by a small meteorite and the chip is about 20cm wide, and growing. Concerned by the time the crack when from the top to the bottom of the screen, we called the rental company. Now when our rental company, Britz, were starting out, they decided not to descriminate in their initial staff selections, and employed all the idiots that they could find in the greater Auckland area. After being transferred and hung up on a few times we speak to a 'person' and they tell us instead of getting it fixed, we have to change vans. So within a day we had to say goodbye to our beloved and move all our stuff into an OLDER MODEL!!!!!!!! Sob sob. It's different. We want our old home back.