Day 120-122 On the 25th we had left this day free just in case the weather did not permit us to do our skydive. However, as it had gone ahead we had a day to wander around town and chill out at the hostel. The following day we had arranged our Milford Sound trip. So we headed into town at 0630 to wait for the bus. It was the coldest day that we had felt so far at minus 2 degrees. Not the kind of day you would want to be waiting around for a bus. That's exactly...

Day 119 Don't let the seperate blog fool you, we had our skydive on the afternoon of the bungy. We were absolutly buzzing from the adrenaline or maybe from the massive coffee we had from McCafe plus the other 2 we'd drunk. We checked in and found out that we were on the last plane with an Australian guy making up our trio. Although Vincent was jumping out at 12,000ft and we were going all the way to the top 15,000ft (16,200 above sea level). Due to Al being hea...

Day 118-119 Today was our long awaited adrenaline junkie day. Lorna was nervous about the skydive and Al was nervous about the bungy. It didn't help that we had to be up at 0600 and it was only 4 degrees. So we were shivering before we had started. The jump site for the bungy was 45 minutes away and the driver selected music where the lyrics were designed to scare the living **** out of you. We drove past the Kawaru Bridge where the 47m jump is known as the h...

Day 116-117 We arrived in Queenstown on the evening of the 21st after an eventful journey. On our way we were driving down a highway when a tyre from another car came across from the other side of the road and hit our coach head on. The driver performed an emergency stop and then got out and assessed the damages. The windscreen had been cracked, the front grill and bumper had been ripped off and the entry steps to the coach had been bent. It was lucky that he s...

Day 114-115 We arrived at our hostel on the 20th July mid-afternoon. We had not had a chill out day for ages, so we decided to spend the rest of the day watching movies and eating. Al even surprised Lorna after dinner with homemade apple crumble from free ingredients mmmm!! We agreed the only thing missing was custard. On the 21st we headed into town and stopped at the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. It was nice to read some of the facts about New Zealanders, ...