Saturday, September 12, 2009

Day 6: Travel Day - Franz Josef to Wanaka

Today we boarded yet another Atomic Shuttle and began our 5 hour trip to Wanaka; it was another gorgeous journey. About 2 hours into the drive, we stopped for lunch at this little cafe - which was pretty much a real "Rainforest Cafe". I won't bore you with details about the drive, but here are some pictures of the scenery along the way.






After the long drive, we were starving, and since there was a huge grocery store right next to the hostel (reality check: no more upgrades and we're back to sharing a room with other people and bathroom/showers down the hall) so we decided to make food. By this point we're starving, but managed to whip up a surprisingly good and fast dinner.






and spent no time demolishing it.

This is the view from the kitchen on the 3rd story of the hostel. Gorgeous.




Unfortunately, we then find out KL's credit card had about 1,500 of fraudulent charges and spent the rest of the night trying to straighten it out (with multiple trips to the grocery store for some "cultural candy" to make everything better). We're still not sure how somebody got ahold of her info, but she cancelled the card so we're still hoping everything works out!

It was also around this point that we decided we're skydiving tomorrow for sure!! We had planned to skydive in Queenstown, but apparently Wanaka is the second best place in the world to skydive (second to Fox Glacier, but the weather wasn't good when we were there!)
Yes, we are all freaking out thinking about the fact that tomorrow we will be jumping out of a plane! AHHHH

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