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Catherine and I had our room to ourselves so we had a really good night's sleep in our cosy room. At 10am we left the camp and we stopped briefly at the mirror lakes but unfortunately the weather meant that we couldn't see our reflection as it was too overcast. At lunchtime we stopped at Te Anau again and went to a cafe for a big breakfast of two eggs, two sausages, hash brown and beas on toast - yum! We then had a two hour journey back to Queenstown.
When we got back Catherine, Huw and I checked into Adventure Queenstown as he'd recommended it as it had free internet and was a really nice hostel. Catherine and I couldn't get a room together for the first night as they were fully booked so I checked into a room full of guys and then headed out to see if I could get my hair coloured. I tried one place and they didn't have any appointments till the next day so I tried another where the hairdresser was a Thai man who looked like he was trying to be a woman. I was slightly worried but as I really wanted to get my roots done I booked in for an hour later. I passed the time by going in the little shops and then bumped into Huw who was also having a bit of a shop.
When i went into the hairdressers he passed me a few magazines to look at - I wasn't very impressed by his collection though as one was a French mag and the other two were hair mags. I had to wait a while for him to finish with one girl and then when he had put her under the heater it was my turn in the hot-seat. Then he did my top head as my hair had grown so quickly and then I had to switch positions with the girl to be under the heater. He'd booked in so many people that it felt like a conveyor belt as he swapped me from the heater to have my hair washed and then finally to have my hair blowdried when I opted for a curly style. My whole appointment lasted two and a half hours so I was late meeting everyone and had to ask Catherine to order my dinner for me and then I ran home and got changed and arrived just a few minutes after my pizza had arrived.
I had texted Ryan - who was on my original bus but had left after 4 days as he was doing the East Cape which wasn't included in my pass - with what our plan was for that evening as I though he might be in Queenstown that evening and he arrived about 10 minutes after me being there. I was really excited to see him as I had got on really well with him and we had share a kkiss on his last night on our bus. Catherine and I caught up with him and then we got some drinks and Catherine and I got up to have a dance but couldn't persuade Ryan to join us. We were waiting for Digger to arrive as he was going to see if he could arrange for us to have a discount on the bar crawl but he was quite late so a big group of us from the bus were all waitingfor him. There were quite a few people in the bar from our origingal bus who we hadn't seen in ages.
When Digger arrived we got a free shot and then waited for him to suggest our first bar to go to as he said that he would design the crawl instead. A group of us left and went to Sky Bar, which was a really nice bar but was empty. We grabbed a drink and sat on some leather sofa's in front of the fire. After a drink there we then went to World Bar and Digger ordered some teapots and poured us all shots. We all had a dance and Digger got me up on the podium with him. I had been speaking to Alice about whether she liked Huw and she said she did but didn't think he was interested and I said that I liked Ryan but wasn't sure if he was still interested so we made it our mission to try and make something happen and that we would check in with each other every so often to give our progress.
After a quick check in we both gave an account of our progress, which was that there wasn't any and then we went back to the group. I went to the dance floor and saw that Ryan was sitting to the side and when I asked him why he wasn't dancing he said he was taking a break so I stood with him and then we ended up kissing. At about 1:30am he decided to go home as he'd run out of money and he didn't want to stay out and not drink, despite my suggestion of drinking water. When he left we decided to head to another bar. We went to Debajo and were the only ones in there. We had a quick dance but then moved on to find some people. On the walk there I decided to do Alice a favor and ask if Huw if he was interested in any of the girls we were out with. Due to my very direct and forceful questioning I managed to find out that he liked Alice, but because he's a nice guy I knew he wouldn't make any moves on her so I then gave him some tips on how to show he was interested in her (I realised after saying this that I was either very patronising or acting like a big sister, so I gave my apologies and said I would stop talking - he seemed to find the situation amusing luckily though!) The next bar was Boiler Room but they were playing Christmas songs, which make it difficult to dance to. However Alice came over and started swinging me around and I told her that I'd had a bit of a chat with Huw and that he was interested but may need a push in the right direction. I was also waiting for Catherine and Digger to kiss too as they had been looking very cosy, so to help matters along I went over and asked them to pose for a picture together by the Christmas tree...just call me Cilla!
When the bar closed at 3:30am we started walking towards the hostel and realised that we'd lost Alice and Huw (woo hoo!) and that Catherine and Digger were kissing (successful matchmaking I think), which left just Gemma, Nasreen and I. Nas and Gemma wanted to find another bar whilst I was ready for bed so I made a deal that if we found anywhere on the way back that I'd go, if not I was going to the hostel. An English guy started walking towards us asking where we should go so with him in tow we set off in search of another drinking hole. When we got to the end of the road Nas spotted a good looking guy and tried to enlist him in the search for a drink. He was however headed to the casino so we all decided to follow him as he said it had a nightclub. He turned out to be an American guy called Trevor. The casino was closed so we went to a bar nearby. When they weren't selling alcohol we decided to admit defeat and because the girls were staying at a different hostel to me Trevor said he'd walk me home. When we got to the door of my hostel he tried to proposition me but I told him that I had met a guy who I really liked (Ryan) and that I was flattered as he was a very good-looking guy.
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