Queenstown's a great town!

Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013

“To Queenstown!”

The trek continued today like this:

9:50am – Shuttle to airport

12:05- Fly to Queenstown

1:35- Arrival, make way to hostel, book the fun!

Before leaving we walked around Wellington, and it really is just a dirty city, but I reminds me a lot of San Francisco with it’s tall houses build on steep streets. At the airport, things are done differently than we were used to and they run you through security only right before your flight and then you wait for a very short amount on the other side, but there’s nothing to do there, like no restaurants or anything.  Just the seats. But on the upside, they have beanbag chairs to sleep on.  Point for Wellington airport.

Me and my buddy G-dawg

We must be getting better at traveling, because this time we took a shuttle straight to the hostel (no getting lost), and it was much nicer than the last one (but it’s not saying much).

Queenstown is a really cool city and it has a very Banff feel.  Pretty much a resort town.  We booked our bungee jump and jetboat experiences, wandered around a lot, ate at Fergburger because “you haven’t had a burger until you’ve had a Ferg burger”.   Life is so fun, because no matter where we are, we see/experience interesting things. Just sitting in park we saw disc golfers playing, a girl in a Winnipeg jets hoodie, what looked like a Shakespeare play happening around is, and a man in hip-waders plunge into the duck pond in pursuit of a lady’s flown away paper.

Random fact: Queenstown has an indoor ice rink…right beside the lawn bowling.

STORY: Hannah from England

She’s traveling and working for a year, super nice. She accidentally rented a bus instead of a car for a 6hr trip, but she just rolled with it and found passengers to take with her and charged them for the trip.

Loving Queenstown!

Thursday, Jan 24, 2013

“Livin’ it up, BUNGY style!”

Did I mention it was beautiful?

 Today was the day! It’s adventure time!  We have the photos, video, and t-shirts to prove it, but let it be said, Travis and I both did the Nevis Bungee, 134m into a canyon and it was AWESOME! Like…an indescribably amazing feeling!  Actually, the ride up to the site was almost as scary; the full size tour bus was driving on a 1-lane path with a sheer cliff drop off on the other side!  It was intense!

Thats right world, I bought CHERRIES! And I loved them!

The other super fun thing we did today was the shotover Jetboat experience, a high speed cruise though a rock canyon where you come ridiculously close to hitting the rocks and do 360 degree spins on the water too!  It was so much fun we did it twice!  I’d recommend it to everyone as it was a really great time!

Mine was that big too!

Random Fact- According to the bungy scale, I’ve gained  12 pounds since leaving. Wow. I hope it's muscle. :s

So, a bit of honesty here, the BASE hostel chain seems to be pretty much completely aimed at the young party crowd, and it shows.  Due to a rough night of room mates being drunk, locked out, vomiting, and the ever present pounding of the bass from the first floor bar, we’ve decided to spread our wings and branch out into another hostel chain.   We’ve booked tomorrow night with YHA so we’ll see what happens.

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