Day 4-5

Our night in Kingston was the coldest yet. We have adjusted to sleeping under the covers. However, we decided to splurge a little on warm wool socks. For a country that produces so much wool and despite the fact that demand for wool is waning, prices of wool products are through the roof. If you add some possum fur in, prices seem even higher. It's a national pest!

Cold campsite

Mini Bananas!

We spent some the day checking out Queenstown. Unbeknown to me, Queenstown is some sort of adventure capital. There is paragliding, bungy, rocket boating, white water activities, and giant swings. So, to take part in this theme, Heather and I went... golfing. It was a nice mountain course in Arrowtown. Heather was only 5 shots back after our 9 holes. The highlight of my day was slicing three balls off the last teebox so wickedly the balls were nowhere to be found. Heather thought one of them hit a bus on the highway.

Heather teeing off on 18

We then drove to Twizel and spent the night. It wasn't as cold this time, thanks to our warm socks. We then did take in a little adventure activity by doing some helibiking yesterday. We went up in a helicopter with bikes strapped on and biked down from the top of a mountain. Heather did very well to keep up and only needed oxygen twice. We were also shown some of the Lord Of The Rings film locations along the way, including the battlefield of Pelennor.

We stopped for lunch to view Mount Cook at the edge of Lake Pukaki and made our way to Christchurch last night. We decided to spend a night in warmth a checked into a hotel. We went our for supper where I had some local fare: lamb. I don't think I've ever ordered it before, but it was amazing. I'm not sure if lamb is baby sheep or what it is, but delicious nonetheless.