Lincoln Goes to Indonesia and Thailand and...: Fox Glacier by Helicopter

When in New Zealand, Tim and I decided to treat ourselves (Treat. Yo. Self.) to a helicopter ride over and onto one of the south island's amazing glaciers: Fox Glacier. Our flight would also take us on a spin past New Zealand's highest peak, Mt. Cook (remember we hiked Hooker Valley up to the base of Mt. Cook?). Neither of us had ever been in a helicopter before, so we were super excited. We were worried it wouldn't happen because of rainy weather, but our ride seemed destined when the clouds parted for just an hour in the morning, giving us amazingly sunny weather for our flight.

I apologize for the photo bomb of a post, but, dudes, it was so photo worthy!

Pre-ride:

Here's our sweet chariot, landing from a previous flight:

Tim sat shotgun on the way out and I did on the way back. Sharesies.

Here we go!!!

Turns out helicopters are super loud, hence the headsets. And the cheesy music in my videos (the sound on our videos was excruciating!):

We had a one-way conversation with our pilot, whose name escapes me... he explained things to us and we nodded our heads and marveled at the insane views:

Ahoy, unattractive selfie!

Omg, the views:

Thar be the glacier on the left... long!

Please excuse the reflections- hard to take photos inside the helicopter when it's so sunny!

Top of the world....

Pioneer Hut atop the glacier... can you imagine sleeping there?

Cool texture:

It's like a postcard, non?

Just breathtaking... and a bit otherworldly.

Touchdown!!

Time to pose for photos.... I think our pilot was thinking we would do some funny/exciting/playful poses, but we were honestly in awe of our surroundings and didn't really step up our posing game: