Queenstown

The distance to queenstown from wanaka wasn't far but we stopped at a few places on the way including a fruit and veg shop where all the food there is freshly grown it was so cheap we ended up buying 2 bags full of veg :) 

We arrived early afternoon and it was a lovely sunny day we had already pre booked our double ensuite room and when we got Into it we were pleasantly surprised it was like a hotel room, nice balcony with gorgeous view of the lake, 32 inch tv, nice bathroom, kettle, fridge this was the most luxury we had had since we arrived in New Zealand !

We settled in and pretty much chilled out watched films and ate Pizza that first night! The next day we decided to go for a walk around the lake we debated playing frisby golf but it didn't look to iressive so gave that a miss! It was a lovely sunny day with a bit of a wind coming over the lake, we went on quite a long walk and took lots of pics the views were Infact breathtaking :) 

 

.....it was like we were in a postcard!

We were walking all afternoon, we wandered around the town and headed back for more films and a snuggle :)

We spent our days walking around the lovely town, exploring all the streets  and little boutique shops, we spent the evenings watching Xmas films, making home cooked food and snuggling planning our trip to oz which was fast approaching! 

We spent one afternoon hiking up her another mountain! We walked to the gondola station which Is the cable cars and saw that the price for a return trip was $27 each and decided that was just to much for our budget to take ! So we decided to walk up! We knew it would be hard because this gondola was the steepest on the Southern Hemisphere ! So the walk up was going to be hard! But we did it and I had Luke encouraging me all the way which I needed! It was a really hard walk for me we stopped loads and saw some gorgeous views over the lake .....

.....although it was hard looking back it was a fun walk!

At the top the views were even better!...

 

 

.....the steepest cable cars!

It was pretty chilly at the top, so we treated ourselves to a hot basket of chips! Which went down a treat! It was a round 18.30 by this point and we were going to walk back down but I had a thought that we could get the gondola back down! I didn't want to pay to get down so we went to the cable cars and as luck would have it the guy that works there was assisting some people getting off the gondola so I jumped on and called Luke over and we were on and the doors shut! That was it we had got on this end would we get off at the bottom for free! It was a good view on the way down and extremely steep more steep then we like! We got to the bottom and just walked out! We were pleased as we had got to do the walk, see the view and ride the cable car all for free! Saving the penny's once again! What a day :)

Another activity we decided to do the next day was crazy golf! A favourite of ours :) it was $13 each! But it was something we enjoyed  and loved to do together we had such a laugh! It was a reasonably hard course! Luke won the first time and I won the second time! And I had my name put on the leadership board for England! For my great score! Which was 45!!! Par was 47! I was quite pleased with that!

It was only a day until we would be leaving for our final destination which was christchurch, and my mind was on Xmas day! I really wanted to get Luke some gifts to open, you can't have Xmas with no pressies! So we decided to have a very small budget $40 each which is around £20! To spend on each other! We went out seperately and bought gifts to wrap! Only time will tell if Luke likes what I got him! 

All in all we loved queenstown it was very beautiful, however being at the end of our tour we didn't have as much money as we had wanted, but we still had a great time, the only thing we disliked was how expensive everything was! It was the most expensive of all of New Zealand ! Still a lovely place tho!

Next stop christchurch :)