Queenstown and Wanaka, SHRED THE NARN!

Lake Wanaka

Nic demonstrating falling leaf, her favourite

Yes, we know we look bad, our outfits were RENTED!

Queenstown is a massive backpacker hang out, as it is full of outdoor activities. If you want to do a bungy, throw yourself out of a plane or go on a death defying boat trip then this is the place. Nic and I, went to the cinema. Ha ha! Our excuse is that is rained pretty much constantly for 2 days and not wanting to part with $200 to nearly kill yourself we were happy to sit back and watch everyone else do it! We went along to watch the bungy, at which point Nic decided to start umming and ahhing about whether to do it. Then she wanted to do a tandem with me. Good god. The art of bungy isn't exactly hard, you just need to throw yourself off into a river, ah! So eventually we decided to save our money for better things, namely Wanaka! Wanaka was a bit like Queenstown but not as big and less touristy. Fortunately I have a friend that I used to work in la Plagne with when I did my ski season, who works the ski patrol on the mountain. So we met up with Paul who was awesome, and gave us free lift passes (legend) and up to Cardrona it was! It was a bit weird though, as we're used to lifts that start right outside your hotel, in NZ, you have to drive 40 minutes, drive a death defying climb, and then you're at the mountain, where you are greeted by a whopping 3 lifts! Ha ha! It was really good though as they had just had 30cm of fresh snow (freshy to us pros) which was good as it was 3 days until the end of the season. Once we were there we were encouraged to 'SHRED THE NARN!', a phrase that I'll be looking up in my boarder dictionary, but I presume it was a good thing. Given that Nic and I worked in different resorts in France we were both a similar standard so it was awesome boarding together, that is, except from the part where Nic fell and took us both out. What an amateur.