Oaks Club Resort Queenstown

... if I would like to stay with them for them my remaining 3 nights. It was lovely staying with them, even though we had a 30 minute straight up hike to and from their place but spectacular views of the mountains and lakes all the way up and down.<br><br>I loved queenstown and was sad to leave but now back in auckland with friends.<br><br>**sorry for anything that doesn't make sense I am completely exhausted but must take advantage of the free internet, it is a rarity.<br>

... far has managed to remain bed bug free. That is until we arrived. The staff took the news really seriously as apparently the nocturnal insects are hard to get rid of and infestations can ruin a hostel's reputation. This means that the hostel paid for us to have all our clothes washed. Our bed sheets were also thrown out and after we leave our mattresses will be burned and the room fumigated. I feel like we're in quarantine, and while Vicky and Emma can hide ...

... bit of a slow start in the end. Around midmorning we drove up to Coronet Peak and got ourselves some half day passes for an afternoon on the piste. The weather had cleared up loads and it was great snow. Sar and Tony played tag team taking it in turns to look after Lily and Joe while I got to snowboard with both of them so I was knackered after a few hours!<br>It was really beautiful at Coronet Peak and the views from the mountain down over Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu were ...

... no pants errrrr!!), amateur dramatics (girls in hand made sequenced tops dancing and miming to Kylie's Locomotion mmmmm) but the highlight was definitely the Cook Island dancers. Now if anyone read my last Fiji blog you will know that I'm pretty fond of the lovely Fijian men who dance in grass skirts, with a six pack body rubbed down in baby oil! Wow! So needless to say I was practically running into this event and managed to blag us front row seats (no surprise to you ...

... trout there were some awesome eels and if you put a coin in the slot machine to drop some food pellets in to the water (thats why the trout are hanging around), some ducks will dive down to feed as well.<br>Dinning in Queenstown leaves nothing to be desired, the Italian was as good as any on Norton Street Sydney, the seafood establishments matched the Boathouse on Blackwattle Bay and the veiws from the Skyline (you catch a gondola to it) are amazing.<br>We could right 1000's ...

... fixed (we have done the same job as we had done before in perth) in just a matter of hours and at half the price quoted by our perth dodgy dealer all those months ago! and the town isn't all that - a cluster of colonial buildings surrounded by the modern and several streets of either derelict or industrial sized buildings - so we wander about while our camper is in the mechanics, hoping that he can get the work done today so that we don't have to opt to sleep in the camper in ...

... and it was Beau who is extremely creative. They told him that he was supposed to build their website, so he, Heesuk, and Jaclyn made their church a website. Also, a lot of international students live at their house all the time, and they are able to minister to the students through being a host family. Chris and Janet's friends who were there that night even commented that we may think it is unusual for Chris and Janet to take in more than 20 ...

... up. I would recommend Macs beer or lager. Yvette: Jetboating again this time on the shotover river inches away from the sides of canyons at 85 kph, and lots of 360 spins! Loads better than the one in sydney - this was smooth and fast and a real buzz, where as the sydney one just made me feel sick, as there were too many waves - shotover river is the way to go! The heated handrail was a really nice touch too. We ...

... br>morning! So we called the caretaker who was this awesome Irish woman, I<br>think Holly or Beverly?, and gave her the info and CC number to charge,<br>in order to ship it to our hotel/APT we'd be checking into Tue, in<br>Sydney. There wasn't enough time to get it to us especially over the<br>weekend, to Christchurch ...

... of my wee plunge), canyon swing (an evolution of bungy), white water rafting, jetboat, canyoning, horse riding, 4x4 and quad bike tours, climbing, mountaneering, luge (which involves you sitting on a 4 wheeled cart with a brake and racing down a concrete track) and, of course, ski and board on 4 public slopes. We did a lot of that, practically on every weekend off since start of the season. Kathryn, Jen and Donna learned to ski while my boarding mate "Speights Man ...