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Leaving Queenstown

Wednesday, May 5th, 2004

We finally left Queenstown after two days and didn’t do ANY “extreme” activities. Paragliding or whatever it is called sounded great. And Jim wanted to white water raft or go river sledging but it just wasn’t the right time of the year and we figure we can do it somewhere else, maybe.

The last two nights we went out to the pubs and it was pretty fun. Last night was with an American couple who had been teaching English in Japan for 2 years. The night before was an American guy who was living and working in Queenstown for a while. One bar was really cool because when it got hot, the roof opened up!! Even when it was sprinkling outside! It was great because it got *so* hot in there.
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So Much to Tell

Wednesday, May 5th, 2004

I hate that I can’t use the internet more, because I know I will forget stuff if I don’t write it down. Not only is it hard to even find internet cafes sometimes, it is quite expensive.

So……. we’ve done a lot and gone pretty far since Mt. Cook.

We drove down the east coast, stopped in Oamaru for lunch, and then spent two nights in Dunedin. (pronounced Dun-Eden. Not Doon-adin.) It was a neat little college town and it has the steepest street in the world. But we didn’t see it. Heh heh.

We met a super friendly Kiwi girl in the Kathmandu store and talked to her for a while. She said how when 9-11 happened she was terrified and had nightmares. It was interesting to hear her perspective on things.

When we were there, Jim went to a Speight’s brewery tour. I was very excited to go to the Cadbury tour, but so mant people told me it was a rip-off, so I didn’t go. That was a bummer. But we did see Kill Bill 2, which Jim has been dying to see.
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