Adrenalin junkies!
On reaching Wanaka we stopped by Puzzle World, a kind of museum of illusions, including a 2 storey maze. They had a room that demonstrated the technique that was used in Lord of the Rings to make the hobbits look smaller. It was a cool place.
That night we went to the movies, but not in your usual cinema. In Cinema Paradiso, you sit in proper comfy old sofa’s! There is even a car in the room, which you can sit in to watch the movie! You can order full meals to have during the film, on a tray on your lap. They serve up big hot cookies straight from the oven during the interval and also make their own ice-cream, which
was lush. We watched Australia with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. Rach loved it.
The next day we left for Queenstown, the adrenaline capital of the world and a place I had been looking forward to. On arriving we checked into our campsite and went on the gondola up Bob’s Peak. We had 2 rides on the luge at the top, with me winning both. Rach wasn’t too happy with my Schumacher style over taking move in race 2! We had a nice lunch up there and as always the views were amazing.
The next morning we had great weather, which was ideal as we were doing our thrill rides, a bungy jump for me, and a skydive for Rach.
I am pleased to say we both survived and loved our experiences.
My bungy was at the AJ Hackett Nevis site, and at 134m high is the 3rd highest in the world. The adrenaline rush was amazing and I definately want to do another. Here’s the proof, but be sure to check the videos page.
A few hours later and Rach was being strapped up for her 15,000ft skydive. The weather was perfect with hardly a cloud in the sky. she says the intitial roll out of the plane was just incredible, dropping so fast with the ground just rushing up toward her. She had 60 seconds of freefall!
We didn’t want to let the adrenalin die down, so also did a jet boat ride through a canyon the following day!
We are now in Te Anau and are visiting Milford Sound tomorrow, spending a fortune but loving every minute of it!
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Hi matt,
Good to speak to you again the other night. Puzzle world looks well cool. and so does the bunjee jump! did you get a vid of it? you should upload it if you have. NZ on the whole looks and sounds much better than I thought. I’m acutally want to go now!
Hey guys,
I’m Alex’s mate at work, I’ll be off travelling in September for 11 months hence my subscription to your site! Really jealous of everything you both are doing, the extreme sports in NZ are something I’m looking forward to most already.
Couple of things to mention, how do you map out your route in the ‘Track our Progress’ section, do you use googlemaps?
Also, just in case you run in to them – my brother and his girlfriend are travelling NZ and were in Queenstown yesterday, Sean Quine and Kate Ricketts. Just in case you bump into them at some point!
Enjoy your trip.
Darryl
Alex, it is on the video page!!
Darryl, glad you’re liking the site. The maps bit uses a plugin called Geomashup and yeah it uses google maps. I don’t think I bumped into your brother, but to be honest if I had last night I wouldn’t remember!
Well done you two!! What an experience! Here we were thinking you were a nice sensible girl Rachel! Think if we had just done what you guys did we would be drinking the cocktails straight from the teapot and sod the cup! The phots are amazing. What an amazing view you had Rachel. And as for you Paddy – what were you thinking? The video of your jump Matt is amazing. Glad there were no crocodiles in the river below! Lovin the fots and blog. Keep it up.xx
I think I must be on an adrenalin rush just fromwatching the video and phots – have you noticed how many times I used the word – amazing! oops! Now where’s that teapot? xx
What an experience.Rachel texting 0400 hrs in the morning and ringing at 2300hrs saying ,forgot about the change in the time makes us think you had just a bit too much of the teapot or you were still experiencing the after effects of the adrenaline rush,not sure which? Grandad says he’d have done the bungy jump !! xxx
Mum Doran – The shot glasses lasted about 5 mins, then it was indeed drunk from the spout!
The oldest jumper to do the Nevis was 85 and it is free for over 65’s, so get over here Grandad, i’m waiting with the camera!
Well done Rachel, isn’t it just THE most amazing experience ever? I’m soooo glad you did it! As for Matthew, is he mental???? Jump out of a plan, yes, bungy jump, not a hope in hell!
Of course the teapots have to drunk from the spout, otherwise it is just all kinds of wrong!!!!
Love you and miss you xxxx
Hey guys! Remember little moi from Fiji? I finally got the time and make comments….great video of bungy! and you didnt scream like a girl. I would not have the guts to do that. And Rachel glad you tried out the floating lesson of skydiving – wasnt it awesome?!? Weird feeling when you are free falling! The best ever…Weird because my other friends who I met in thailand did bungy at the same place, you never know you might have passed them.
You will be seeing a lot more of my comments lol
Take care now! Enjoy Oz
Lou x
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