A very expensive and busy day today but then we are in Queenstown. We started in a pretty relaxed manner until we thought we might make it to the 10am cruise on the TSS Earnslaw. A spurt of speed on David's part and faith on mine meant we did make it, just ! David returned saying we had missed it as they had pulled in the gang plank but from my observations of yesterday I knew they kept a second one open for much longer so sent him off again. The cruise acros...

Managed to see Mum, Dad, Vicky, Rohan and Yazmin on Skype to have a chat, sadly Mum Spurway was not online. Had a disturbed night as the girls managed to set the alarm off in their bedroom for just past midnight - yuk ! This unsettled them both so David and I ended up in different beds sharing with different children.We were up and away by just after 9. After a chat about the route options we decided to follow SH6 as opposed to the Crown Route. The was a comb...

Bungie! Or Bonkers as alex calls it

Today has been a lazy day and honestly it was much needed by all. We flopped about this morning and finally left at just after 11am. We headed down to Puzzling World for a visit and spent about 3 hours there. This was perhaps slightly longer than anticipated as Elizabeth through the mother of all tantrums in the entrance, David managed to control her with 'fairies'. The place was very interesting and some of the illusions were really impressive. The sloping r...

Today started earlier than intended due to Elizabeth having played with the alarm clock last night. I tried to get back to sleep and failed. We managed to leave the apartment at about 9:30am after having received a refund for the failed internet access. Our first call of the day was to Lake Matheson, after hearing so much about it we were looking forward to our walk. It was a lovely lake but certainly not the nicest we have seen in our travels. It was not he...