Today is the day we continue on our way up the west coast. We've been in Queenstown now for three nights and it's finally time to move on. I love it here and would love to come back and spend some time here, but I probably won't. Plus it's kinda expensive around here, so it would probably bankrupt me pretty quickly anyhow.
It'll be good to be on the road again, though. Master Thor has been anxious to get rollin again. But, before I move on, let me fill you in on what we've been up to in the Q-town (nobody calls it that).
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Last time on "...and the world keeps turning":
Our heroic duo, tired from the long previous day of hiking and driving the next, rolled up to the Resort Lodge in Queenstown, New Zealand. They ate an exciting scrumptious burger meal at Fergburger and spent the rest of the afternoon napping and writing. Not knowing what the future held for them in the ever-moving adventure culture of Queenstown, the pair arose to explore the local nightlife...
So we went out with a few friends that also happened to be in Queenstown at the time. Not much exceptional to say of the nightlife here, except that one place did have a Queenstown Pirate Rock band playing, the Scurvy Dogs, complete with pirate accent. So that was interesting.
The next day we met up with my friend Gray from Tech who is also studying in Wellington with me. Actually we didn't know each other before, so that was kinda funny. We packed a picnic and Sarah, Gray, and our friend Andy and I all went to the park to eat and play with Andy's roommate's dog Dozer. It was such a nice day, like from a movie where people are just walking, chilling, playing frisbee in the grass, taking their daughter's out for a casual canoe ride.
After all that relaxing we decided to take the gondola up to the top of Bob's Peak for some excellent views of the surrounding mountains and lake. From the top we did some luging down part of the hill, which was way cooler than I thought it would be. Basically you sit in these very simple go-cart type deals with no motors or anything, just brakes, and you cruise on down the hill. Fast.
That night was a chill night. We cooked some pasta and the four of us sat around on the deck of the hostel and chatted. After that we watched Batman Begins to top it all off.
Day three in Queenstown was quite different. I really wanted to see some Lord of the Rings filming locations, because there are a ton around Queenstown, and Sarah wanted to go to Wanaka, a nearby lake town with a quaint little dinner cinema place. We were supposed to drive to Milford Sound that day but opted against it because of driving time and financial practicalities, so Gray was happy when he had someone to hang out with.
So yea we did all of those things: visited a park where a bunch of the Rohan scenes were filmed in the movie, saw the River Anduin and Pillars of the Kings on the river from the first movie, and drove to Wanaka to for Puzzling World and Cinema Paradiso. Puzzling World was way cooler than it sounds, with a HUGE maze that took us an hour to do (30 minutes short of the average) and an exhibit of illusions with crazy stuff.
At the cinema I has Hawaiian pizza and a homemade cookie during the intermission of Welcome to the Sticks, an absolutely hilarious new French movie that none of us had ever heard of before. And on top of all of this it was a gorgeous day next to the beautiful Lake Wanaka. To finish it all off we stopped on the side of the highway back to Queenstown to see more stars than I've ever thought of before. It was insane. The Milky Way was just BAM right there.
Well my hour of internet is almost up here at the Global Gossip, so I'll leave it there. And I'm finally up to date! In real time! Woo! So now we're leaving for the glaciers about four hours north of here, so next time I post hopefully I'll have hiked and climbed and slid all over them. Keep checking back and having fun and doing all those things you guys always do best!
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