again, the biggest highlight of the first half of the day was the pretty drive from manapouri to queenstown. lots of mountains, lakes, crazy reflections, and beautiful turny, twisty roads.
the first impression you get upon arriving to queenstown is how mindblowingly crazy it is. most stores have something to do with extreme sports – flying horizontally, vertically, or preferably, both. skydiving, bungy jumping (this sport originated here), paragliding, racing of all kinds (water and earth), going down extreme waterfalls in extreme boats, etc. i think that if you want to do something crazy, this is the place to do it.
so, of course i did end up doing something crazy. but that’s another story.
today however, was a very uncrazy day. upon arrival (thankfully we had a booking – every hostel, hotel, motel and b&b was full), we simply went up the local hill to see some people do their bungy jump off a local attraction, and generally to enjoy the weather. my personal highlight has been finding 3 awesomely cute magnets to bring back to my parents. perhaps not the most prudent financially place to buy them, but then again i ended up not seeing those particular ones anywhere else, so i’m pretty happy in the end of it all.
evening was quiet – i booked my ‘crazy’ event, and got an hour of internet free, so that hour is of course now gone from my memory :) and of course i walked around in search of a payphone. the town is small, cute, and the constant screaming of another crazy soul deciding to jump off a bridge or a hill with some plastic behind their back accompanies whatever it is you’re doing.
see it kinda sounds wrong – “booking a crazy event’
it just feels like something like that should be spontaneous :P