More Kiwi Land

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's where they bungee jump from.

Wednesday morning we didn't have much time before we had to catch our flight so we just did some more site seeing around Queenstown. I lead us to the park because I wanted to see the really nice disc golf course I kept hearing about while out and about. It was a gorgeous park. And the course was really nice. And we found this cool tree...

He looks so little!!!
Dad thought the tree was funny because the type of tree is sequoiadendron giganteum. He found the giganteum amusing. Then we hopped back in the car and headed to the airport. We had a layover in Auckland this time around but it wasn't too long, although our plane did finally pull up to the gate when it was supposed to be taking off :/ Despite the delay we made it back to Sydney okay.

My parents stayed for 2 more days. The first day they went to the Blue Mountains and their last day here we hit up the Harley Store. Then we said our goodbyes, despite some technical issues and a snowstorm they were able to finally make it back home to DeWitt.

Well there ends my parent's visit (only took me 5 posts to get there). Since this did happen like a month ago, you should know I already do have a new post in the works about what I've been up to lately. So look forward to that!!! :)

Comments

Anonymous said…
Thanks for sharing :0) looks like life is good . love Aunt Marcy
March 26, 2013 at 11:19 PM
Jessica said…
I laughed out loud at giganteum. :) Great post! Cant wait for the next one.
March 27, 2013 at 2:55 AM
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