7.4.06

Queenstown

It snowed on our trip here from Te Anau. We stopped at Kingston on our way to Queenstown for coffee (there was no Princeton, though). After a quick lunch at a nice golf resort just outside of Queenstown, we went on a gondola ride to the top of a mountain overlooking the city (note: I learned that a gondola is both a slender boat used on canals in cities such as Venice and a contraption that floats up a hill on a cable).

Bungy jumping was invented in Queenstown, and we went by the first bungy bridge in the world. Queenstown is kind of the thrill-seeking capital of the Southern Hemisphere; there is bungy jumping, sky diving, canyon hanging, helicopter rides, snowboarding/skiing, and extreme boat rides, the last of which I am going on tomorrow.

I saw a funny car accident while on the phone with Alex this evening. Nobody got hurt, but it was a minor rear ending, and some bits and pieces of the behind car fell off, and both cars drove off. About two cars later, a guy hopped out of his car and picked up the random pieces of bumper; weird. We had a painfully long dinner (3 hours), but the food was good.

Only two days left!