Perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to let it go so long to finish my posts from our trip to New Zealand.
One – I left you hanging. For all you know, I didn’t make it past the bungy jumping!
Two – it’s now been 4 months since we’ve been back to Seattle and back to ‘real’ life. Four months to kind of forget about our trip, to stop telling the stories, four months to forget how beautiful everything was. Well, now that I’ve finally gotten back around to going through the rest of our trip photos…..
Queenstown was beautiful!!
View from Bob’s Peak
I mean, the water, the mountains (called The Remarkables – which is a pretty appropriate name), the food… Ahh. Now I remember just how great our time was and it makes me wistful for those days and impatient for when we can go back and spend more than 2 days in Queenstown.
Both Nathan and I felt like we had come ‘home’ when we stepped through our hotel room at the Sofitel (which had heated bathrooms floors and a heated towel rack!) and onto the balcony that overlooked this quaint, European-style town with water and mountain views. We felt like this was a place that was familiar to us and we knew that it was a place that we wanted to come back to.
Aside from bungy jumping during our two-day stay in Queenstown, we had no other plans. Which was perfect, since it gave us time to walk around and eat and drink. That’s essentially what we did. And we loved it!
Our first stop: drinking on a boat bar
We discovered our love of meat pies at FergBaker. Nathan discovered his love of Beef Cheeks
We spent the morning and afternoon (between eating stops) strolling by the water.
We watched this guy walk into the water at 8AM and hike his t-shirt up to his arm pits as he waded in up to his chest. At the time, I thought this was the oddest thing….now that I’m looking back at these photos, I think he had a pretty good idea.
Two nights and one full day is not enough time to enjoy this beautiful place but we really tried to take it in as much as we could, and it definitely left a lasting impression.
On our way out of town we got to enjoy the reflection views at Lake Hayes, which was the perfect goodbye (for now, but not forever).
Adventures On the Road 