Today we made our way down to
Arrowtown. What a quaint little place –
reminded us both of Pilgrim’s Rest in South Africa. We parked, walked up and down the central
street, bought a pie (which was REALLY good – and that is saying something as I
am not a pie kind of girl !!!) and hit the road to Queenstown.
We wandered around Queenstown for
a while – didn’t do any shopping as there really isn’t anything that we needed
or wanted. We went up to Coronet Peak
and that is where the fun began !!!!
Well it began sooner than that as I had to lie down on the drive up – I
don’t do heights well at all. There were
cars parked everywhere – some parking spaces were really close to the edge but
even if they had been open I wouldn’t have let Al park there !!!! We found a parking eventually, put our
‘noisy’ pants on and went to find some snow to play in. We were a bit nervous
about where we could play so eventually went inside and asked someone. They were a bit surprised and asked a couple
of times – you don’t want to ski or snow board, you just want to play ? When they finally got that we didn’t want to
ski or snow board they said that there were no designated play areas and that
we could just go out and play anywhere in the snow but to make sure we keep
looking for people coming down the slopes !!!!
We had so much fun – making and throwing snowballs (Al’s aim was heaps
better than mine !!!) and just being like little kids in the snow. I made an angel and pushed all the newly
fallen snow off things (fences and posts etc) before we took our photo in front
of the Coronet Peak sign. On our way
back to the car we stopped and built a little snowman (that actually looked
more like a seal than a man !!!!) before leaving the snow.
Making my snow angel
My snow angel finished
Look at all that snow !!!
Standing on our 'undesignated play area' !
It looks like we are close to the edge - we are NOWHERE close !!
Swiping all the freshly fallen snow off the posts
I Love You !
More laughs !
Our snow man (dwarf ?)
Back down in Queenstown we
decided to go for a cruise on the steam ship across the lake so went and parked
the car and got tickets. It wasn’t too
crowded so that was good. It was amazing
going across the lake and listening to the commentary about the history of
Queenstown and the surrounding landscape.
We could walk down and see how the steam ship actually worked as there
was a platform above some of the working parts of the steamer.
TSS Earnslaw
TSS Earnslaw
More laughs - having so much fun
On TSS Earnslaw going across Lake Wakatipu
View from Lake Wakatipu
After that we started to look
into going to Doubtful Sound for a visit which entailed a change to our
original plan so we got prices and went back to the hotel to think about it and
see what we could work out.
We stopped at Cookie Time and got
two hot cookies each – they were very nice – not sure if it was because we were
cold and they were nice and warm or whether they were actually that good. I said to Al that I didn’t think I would
worry about having them again because they were too rich for me. (Who is the
lady who eats two cookies and says that they are too rich ?????? Wonder if my taste buds are changing with my
age ??????)
Al managed to get hold of a guy
he used to play baseball and softball with who now lives in Wanaka and we made
arrangements to catch up with him tomorrow.
Another great day in NZ with amazing weather and
so many memories.
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