Queenstown Free Day

I got up and checked out of my room this morning as I hadn't been able to get a hostel room tonight because they were fully booked so I was splashing out on a double room!

I went and looked around the shops - I have to try very hard not to spend all my money in Queenstown! I have limited myself to one activity a day!

I ended up in Kathmandu which is an outdoor clothing shop (there's one in Covent Garden) and they had a massive sale on 50% off of everything! So I ended up buying a hiking stick with worked out about 17 pounds! I got a few other little things too!

I decided that I would spend too much money if I stayed and looked around the shops to I went up on the Gondola to the Luge track on the hillside above Queenstown.

This was excellent I had six luge rides and I met a girl as I was walking down to the chairlift who was supposed to be doing a skydive but the weather was pretty bad so the skydive company had given her gondola and luge tickets to use whilst they waited to see what the weather would do!

We went down the scenic route first after having our photos taken by the staff! This scenic ride was alot more difficult than the scenic one in Rotorua! So we graduated to the advanced track! Agh it was a bit too steep for me! There were little kids overtaking me all the time but I was like I don't wanna fall off the edge of the mountain! So I stuck to the scenic route after that! We had an excellent time and after the girl I had met (forgotten her name!) went back to see if the skydive was on and I had a panini in the Gondola cafe!

Back down in Queenstown I had to sort myself out as I was starting the bottom bus tomorrow and I needed to put some stuff in a locker until I came back through!

It was great having a double room to myself, I also got to choose the movie being shown on all the TV's that night. As I planned to go and see Harry Potter in Dunedin I watched Harry Potter and Azkaban in the room!

I managed to put a few things into a locker so I didn't have too many heavy bags!