Thursday, January 3, 2013

Queenstown....Day 10,,,,,,

The boys up the front with the pilot on the way to the snow....

Queenstown airport as we took off.....

The Shotover, pity we didn't jet boat on it, but because of the weather they didn't run for 2 days....

Over the mountains, the snow is from yesterday & there is not much left....

Another helicopter had already landed on the snow, it was mad when it took off above us...

Dan & I


The boys & I.....

Instrument panel in the helicopter....





See the tracks in the mountains, there a crazy mountain bike riders & trampers that do those.....Not my idea of fun, but hey we are all different....

The Hilton Hotel...Queenstown...

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Yep, either of those planes would be nice please.....

These are out of order the boys did some jet sking in the morning....You had to be 15 to ride one by yourself but they said Ethan could control it as long as he had someone on the back....Hahaha Greg drew the short straw...I found a Poodle to pat & sat in the sun.....Bliss

Greg & Ethan

Dan had his going great guns & used a tank of petrol in the time he had it out....



Doesn't Dan look like Ethan in this photo....or vice versa...

Sorry about the order, before we took off...

The Shotover River.....


Melting snow...

Hahahaha, I can run this is the proof....

The waterfall was from all the melting snow....





We were to go parasailing but it got cancelled because of the wind..We could go at 7.00am tomorrow but I think that we have too much to do as we need to leave by 10.00am to go to Milford Sound...Some of the roads were damaged due to flooding & rock falls so some parts may be a bit slow....They have told us to allow at least 4.5 hours to get there....There are markets on in the morning here & I want/ need to go...There may be presents for everyone if I go & find some nice stuff....

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Queenstown...Day 9....Cont....SNOW

After all the rain & the cold this is what we woke up to this morning....It snowed overnight & it was just beautiful...

Looking over the lake to the North of Queenstown...

It looked so fluffy....


This is the back of The Remarkables, it is really close to the hotel....





We went up on the chairlift & did the Luge & then the boys did the Flying Fox...

Mucking around as usual, I was down town shopping.....

The top of the Luge track....


Bet those passengers couldn't believe it when they flew in here this afternoon....

Greg & Dan in their paintball gear, Ethan & I had taken ours off after getting hit.....Wait till you see my bruise.....

Ethan's leg, if Veronica & Mike are reading, I may have done that......

A Gold rush town that has been recreated....


Yep, that's my bruise & you know who did it, Greg did.....isn't there a law against that......I told him that the diamond was looking real good......Greg & Dan have gone to see The Hobbit tonight they did try last night but they were fully booked...

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Queenstown Continued..... Day 8......

There is a Lord Of The Rings shop in Queenstown for all the diehards.......Photo's off my phone = terrible quality....

More LOTR stuff

Dan liked the helmets but at $799 I don't think they are coming home with us anytime soon....

Pity the kid that had this bottle hadn't finished it as we haven't found a "Ethan" one at home....

This was the lookout today in the clouds, top of 13 & heaps of rain.....


That's 2.03pm & that was our high, it all went down hill from there...

This Mini 1000 was so cute, see the matching leather seats, two ladies got in it around my age....See Greg I'm not too old for one.....

Told you it was all down hill from there....Still raining, still misty with very low cloud....But on a positive note we found a laundromat that did all of my washing, dried it & delivered it back to the hotel for $30NZ.....Bargain.....There was 10kg's of it.....

The handspun hand dyed wool scarf that I started to knit today, I think that I am half way there....