Wasting time in wanaka
Trip Start
Apr 20, 2007
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Trip End
Nov 2007
Wanaka,
New Zealand
Saturday, September 22, 2007
So we went that way... the scenery was flippin ace, but the bra fence failed to materialise - which we were both mildly disappointed about.
Wanaka campsite was straight out of the 50's with nowt but wonky places to park (who builds campsites that aren't level eh?) and some frightening toilets complete with the world's scariest sink plugs... oh yes. Here's a link to the photo I took. But we didn't care cos it was a damn site (sight?) cheaper than Q'town and we were only here for one reason... jumping out of a plane!
It was too windy.
So we went to Puzzling World where we had hours of fun being bigger and smaller than each other, leaning over in a leaning over room, being followed by famous people's faces, marvelling at the holograms and generally having a bit of a lark, even in the toilets! Then we did the maze, you had to go upstairs and over bridges and everymathing, and we didn't cheat at all, not one bit.
In a fit of madness, we did the only other thing there was to do in Wanaka, we visited the best cinema in the whole world, Cinema Paradiso - it's got chairs, sofas and even a Morris Minor to sit in, we watched Starter for Ten with Vic the physio and had an awesome white chocolate ice cream during the intermission.
The next day, I phoned the skydiving place... too windy.
We'd exhausted the options by doing both things yesterday so we went in search of entertainment in the town, we ended up on the internet and buying stationery... shortly after buying a kebab we heard someone casually call Aymi... figured it couldn't be anyone we knew as we were in New Zealand, but it actually turned out to be the lovely Pete who Aymi used to work with on the Nottingham Princess. What an ace surprise! So we went and had a beer and a chat with him and his friend Joey.
The next day (24th) too windy, let's go back to Queenstown!
