Wanaka Free Day

The hotel that I stayed at was really nice (in comparison to everywhere else!). There were real mattresses! I normally get foam ones which aren't all that comfortable, and sometimes real spring ones are really old so you can feel all the springs! So staying here was lovely! The bathroom is en suite and has a bath tub, according to others on my bus this is luxury! I prefer showers so the bath didn't make too much of an impression!

As I had the room to myself last night I slept until about 1000 this morning! I then had some breakfast and wandered down to the lakefront. I went into the visitor information centre to find out some activities, there aren't many, mainly walks and such. I decided to go shopping instead! I sat on the beach for half an hour which was great! It's so beautiful here with all the mountains and crystal clear lake water! Some people were out on aqua bikes and kayaks, I found out that it was $10 an hour to hire a kayak but as I had only done it once before the guys at the kayak place reckoned I should do some more guided kayaking before I went out on my own! I headed across the road and into town and looked around the shops, ok so I didn't buy anything as I know that when I get to Queenstown I'll spend a fortune!

I had coffee and lunch at a cafe along the lakefront and unfortuneatly I started to feel really sick (my tablets make me feel ill!) so I went back to the hotel and laid down for an hour. I then went and sat in the garden with some of the girls from the bus, I had taken some panadol and was feeling better for it!

We decided to go for dinner, they were going to go to a restaurant/cafe but I didn't feel like a massive meal so I ended up getting fish and chips from across the road. At the chippie I ran into a girl I had met in Franz Josef who is working at the hotel for a couple of weeks! We ended up sat on a picnic table eating our fish and chips together!

The other bus was meant to come in today which I was going to be joining tomorrow but it still hadn't turned up at 2000! So I watched the movie waiting for the bus to come in which it finally did at 2030! I knew a few people off of the bus so we ended up sat in the garden that night chatting and drinking (well me on diet coke again!). They were so late as they couldn't do the glacier hiking the day before because the glacier was too dangerous! So they did it this morning and drove straight through from Franz josef!