Tuesday, May 25, 2010

dunedin to queenstown

ok, this now seems like ages ago but i thought id better keep it all in order, but il try and keep it short and sweet. so about 2 weeks ago i travelled from dunedin to queenstown, my last bit of travelling before i settled here for the winter.

while i was dunedin i met up with lisa, who i know from fernie. me with rosey cheeks after a tequila beer
dunedin train station, pretty fancy
edinburgh is sooo far away
the steepest street in the world!!
its steep!!
me at the top

a cool wee old street in cromwell
so when i got to queenstown i had a job interview and a week later i got the job, and this is the view from where il be working at coronet peak, woop
queenstown, so pretty
my room in the hostel that i stayed in, it was awful, my bed was on the top right, i could hardly get into it!! was so glad to get out of there
i managed to find a room the day after i arrived, so that night i went out with my new roomie and got drunk :)
teapots at the world bar
these things are dangerous!
my new house

shannon, 1 of my housemates, i live with 3 girls and 1 cat
the lounge
the kitchen and dinning room
my room
a house dinner with shannon and orla
me and wills bonding
i made a quiche, it was ace
me and shannon went for a hike up to the gondola
taking a rest, it was a big hill
at the top :)
what a view!!!!

some paragliders jumping off the top, you can constantly see people falling from the sky around queenstown
we went on a day trip to arrowtown. me at the chinese village

cemetery in arrowtown
the best seat ever, on a cannon over looking the town
ace seat
me in towntown arrowtown
the best ice cream EVER! have recently discovered they do the same ice cream in QT! iv now had it 3 time in 2 weeks!
we also went to wanaka, i almost did the season here but im glad i chose queenstown, its just so ace
me at puzzle world, we didnt go in cause it cost money we just took some pics for free :)
ouch, lol
there has been a silly amount of nights out. getting some wine in us on the walk into town. i have so far managed to get lost twice trying to get home from the pub, 1 night it took me 2.5 hours! should only take 25mins! ahaha

if u take a ginger to the pubo n a wed u get a $50 bar tab, im gona have to grow my hair out




there has been a few wet t shirt comps, i just happened to be in the pub at the time, lol
me and lee have been pretending to be michael jackson a lot
shannon has been trying to look like australia a lot, i know u really have to use ur imagination with this one
we had an impromptu house party
and played kings
the police showed up and arrested shannon (dont worry he was my housemates bf, lol)

poking another drunk person in the eye, its becoming a habit
we got our faces painted



we did a shot ski
and i got a taxi to the next pub, ahaha, good ole lee
so thats pretty much me up to date with this blog, phew. so now i just wait to start work, which kinda revolves around the snow falling, theres been about 30cm in the last couple days. its rained non stop for 2 days so we'v kinda just been lounging about the house watching movies and waiting with the odd trip to the coffee shop