Shayla vs. The World

Well here we go again. Hopefully this one doesn't have formatting issues. Picking up where I left off... I'm bringing sexy back... I'm such a butt head. Sorry :/ Later that night it was my Grandparent's turn to pick what we were doing so we headed up a mountain in a Gondola thingy to see a show. Queenstown from the Gondola Again from the Gondola Up on top of the mountain they had a nice restaurant, bungee jumping, luge tracks, some site seeing and of course the show we were going to, "Kiwi Haka" which is the natives of the land doing their songs and dances and stuff. It was pretty neat. At one point they asked for some ladies to volunteer which resulted in this... The view from up on this mountain was amazing... Then we hopped back in a Gondola and headed in for our last night in New Zealand. Dad and I hit up the pool and hot tub for a bit and then called it a night. In the Gondola on our way down, that...

Two words... Hang. Gliding. 4 years ago my Grandma paid for everyone in my family to go skydiving if they wanted to. For those who didn't want to they still went and spent the day watching the others jump out of a plane. Well, when this happened I was only 16 and you have to be 18 to go skydiving, so for graduation my Grandma gave me money separate from the normal money/presents she gives us at that point that was specifically for skydiving since I missed out last time. New Zealand kind of has this thing for the extreme. I mean the very extreme. Bungee jumping and skydiving are a pretty normal things there. So when we woke up Tuesday morning and asked ourselves, "What do we want to do today?" Well, I had an answer for that. I used my skydiving money to go hang gliding (and lucky my Grandma was along so she got to watch). After calling in and booking my time we headed down to the shop. I hopped in a van with the people in charge and my parents were directed to the land...

Recently people have been complaining about the fact that I haven't posted in a while, so here's a post. My friend sent me this video before I left and since I think it's funny I thought I would share it with you. Also... I promise I'm working REALLY hard on the second New Zealand post. I also have 2 other posts in the works. One about the random things I've been up to lately and another about more language and differences between here and the US. However, I keep having some serious formatting issues on the New Zealand post so until blogger decides to stop being a pain in my rear end it will not be up. Please be patient. It'll be so worth it because awesome things happened. Love you all!!!!

I've decided to hammer down and just do this. So here it is, New Zealand. View from the plane We stayed in Queenstown which is on the South Island. It was probably the most beautiful place I've ever been. Breathtaking views everywhere you went. I don't mean to brag, but this was the view from our Villa we stayed in. We could hear a small waterfall out back too but there was too much foliage to be able to see it. We settled in Sunday(?) afternoon and headed into the town to do some exploring/shopping. Lake Wakatipu. Temperature Ranges from 46-50 year round. People were swimming in it... Supper time rolled around and I honestly can't remember which meal we had that night but I think we ate at this nice place near the lake where I had a delicious pasta with Salmon in it. Dad was also enjoying the local "cuisine." The entire time he was in Australia and New Zealand he made sure to try all new beers each time he had one. This one was pretty aw...