We had to do something daft
Trip Start
Apr 20, 2007
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Trip End
Nov 2007
Queenstown,
New Zealand
Friday, September 21, 2007
No bungy jumping for us, that was something we decided upon a very long time ago... so what else was there for us to do in Queenstown?? We decided to go on a wander after booking ourselves into the expensive campground.
After not a lot of pondering and a minute or so of watching a DVD of other people doing it, we decided that a jet-boat and canyon swing package was just up our street and we were to do it all tomorrow.
To celebrate we ate a pie on a wall and then played on the interweb for about 3 hours (it was warm in the interweb place).
...and so it began.
Jetboating was amazing, like a giant jetski (shouldn't really have been a surprise given the similarity of the names... ho hum) the driver flew past the canyon walls buzzing them by what seemed a matter of centimetres and spinning the boat through 360° the man sat behind us who announced the spin shortly after the driver did his 'I'm going to spin the boat' hand signal was a little annoying but the ride was soooo much fun that we decided to buy a photo of us on it.
Then, the swing.
In anticipation I had to have a wee in the Hoff based portaloo. We then joined the rest of them, I decided on 'the chair' as my 1st drop, like when you lean back on a chair in class or at home and get told off cos you're going to break the chair/your head when you overbalance... only with a 60 metre drop behind you. Chuffin marvellous! Aymi did a 'pin drop' and then we decided to do more... 2 more each! I did a pin drop, took a while cos it was a bit scary and I had no idea when I was allowed to jump, the the lady took it to new heights by being suspended backwards for the 'Elvis Cutaway' I took it to new depths by being persuaded that having a bin over my head was a good way to throw yourself off the cliff (the 'Osama' it even had his face drawn on the front) but then Aymi surpassed all expectations and did the 'Gimp Boy Goes to Hollywood' which entailed her having a gimp mask on and being released upside down and backwards... with a small gimp ted attached... it was ace, til she got back up and a new set of people had turned up to do their drops, heh.
Keeping the others waiting turned from a pastime to a way of life at this point, not only had we taken up all the time they had so they couldn't do more drops, we made them wait while we chose photos and DVDs and tshirts (never been able to literally say 'been there, done that, got the tshirt') they probably hated us...
Our smiles were frozen to our faces and we had DVDs to watch to re-live the experience as well, what an ace day!
