Blossom festival in Alexandra

On Saturday morning my host parents and I drove to Alexandra, a small town 2 or 3 hours from Dunedin. This weekend there was the Blossom festival, which is celebrated to welcome the arrival of spring. They have a bis parade, similar as carneval, but much smaller. The trucks were decorated with colorful paper and on each truck was a "Princess from Alexandra".

Furthermore there was a craft market, a little roller coaster and a merry go round. It would have been nice to watch the parade, but unfortunately my host parents escaped the crowd, which came about 1,5 hours after we arrived.

We had lunch at a really nice place and on the way back we cruised through the beautiful landscape, which reminded me on the one hand of the African steppe with its rocks and dry grass, but on the other hand there were the mountains with snow at the top, that looked a bit like Austria. We had tea at Sara and Neill's farm house and watched "Snow White and the Huntsman" and "Men in Black 3".

All in all it was a nice day, but I thought we would do a day- trip to Alexandra. I really would liked to see more from Alexandra.