Queenstown!

After only 2 weeks of work we were back on our next holiday.... down to the snow in Queenstown, on the South Island.
Friday, after finishing work at 9pm we packed our bags ready for an early start. Our flight took of at 10am from a very rainy, miserable Auckland and arrived in a beautifully sunny Queenstown at around midday, which gave us the rest of the afternoon to play with. We found our hostel and picked up some burgerfuel burgers and frisbees and headed over to the park for a spot of frisbee golf! Such a great idea and a really fun way to spend a few hours in the sun. Unfortunately Si beat me, but it wasn't totally unexpected. After the frisbee golf we treated ourselves to the perfect hot chocolate at patagonia before hitting the drinks, that evening we had the first of many lovely meals out followed by many drinks.

The next day we woke to beautiful weather and headed up to The Remarkables, one of Queenstowns ski fields. Was a beautiful day and pretty great ski conditions - could do with having a few more cm's of fresh snow, but otherwise perfect, stayed up all day and headed down after the last lift, to enjoy another evening of good food and booze. Monday was another perfect day so this time we decided to try out Coronet Peak, Queenstown's other ski field (and our favourite of the 2) Could well have been our best day....very few people, no waiting for ski lifts, pretty much empty slopes....so therefore able to cain it down at full speed....yeeeeaaaa

Unfortunately Tuesday saw the weather turn and the day started with rain and miserableness...so decided to have a lazy day with a nice lie in and a late brunch, followed by the NEVIS ARC...300m canyon swing, I expected more of a stomach lurch, but was pretty ace. That evening, good food, good booze....you get the picture!

Wednesday we headed back to Coronet peak, unfortunately the weather closed in after 30mins of being up the mountain and didn't clear for a good few hours, and even then it was only for about an hour....got pretty miserable up there what with flat light and only being able to see about 20m infront of you. By 2pm we were ready to call it a day and headed back down in time to head over to the airport to pick up our rental car. That evening we headed over to Arrowtown, where we had an AMAZING curry and went to my favorite cinema to watch cemetery junction - a really funny movie produced by Ricky Gervais - definitely recommended!

Thursday we got up really early and headed over to Treble Cone, one of Wanaka's ski fields, and meant to be the most challenging ski field on the South Island. Well, it was definitely a challenge as the visibility was pretty poor until about 2pm when it cleared, plus half of their blue runs would definitely be blacks anywhere else - as for the black runs.... That evening we went for a lovely Thai meal.

Friday we went back to TC to enjoy it in the BEAUTIFUl weather that we had...such a great day - perfect conditions, with even some fresh snow! Stayed up on the mountain for the whole day (as this was or last day on the mountain)
That evening we went to another cute cinema (the famous paradiso cinema) where we watched knight and day (crap movie) but we watched in the comfort of a CAR!!! so cool!

That was our last evening in Wanaka, the next day we headed back to Queenstown, via puzzling world - really cool place, but unfortunately its the same as it was 5 years ago so I remembered most of it, thought they might have updated it more. The maze was cool though and took us over half an hour to find our way out! That afternoon we headed back to drop of the car before going for a nice walk along the lake. Our final evening was spent at another lovely restaurant.

Sunday we headed back to home after a lazy morning in Queenstown....what a great holiday.