Day in Queenstown

Sunday, 16 November

The weather today was absolutely perfect. A bit windy, but it was sunny, blue skies, and out of the wind perfectly warm. 

Peter let me drive his car into Queenstown with my dad (he said if I can drive in Cambodia than I can drive anywhere) ;) I did all of the important things right (i.e. staying on the left side of the road!), but managed to turn the windshield wipers on every time I meant to turn the blinker on. My dad counted... wipers: 15, blinker: 8. 

First thing we did in town was to take the gondola up the mountain for the views. With such weather it was an incredible view!

Lake Wakatipu behind us. The Remarkables to the left, and Cecil Peak and Walter Peak there to the right.

Cecil and Walter Peaks below.

Queenstown.

We walked to town and around the lake front area, then found a place to eat lunch outside. 

I think we sat and talked for more than 2 hours there - then walked around, got coffees, and sat and talked another hour or two. So much to catch up on :)

Back in Arrowtown in the evening we went to town with Peter and Fiona and enjoyed tapas together at a very nice Spanish restaurant. Fun company and cute old town!