It does seem that I managed to pull of the almost perfect last weekend in Qtown! Grabbed a Fat Badgers pizza for dinner on Wed. Left work early on Thursday for Paddys day and met Collette at Pog Mahones for a Guinness in the sun! She had been there for a few hours already with some of her also Irish workmates. From there we headed to her place for a few and then back to town for some fun. I also met up with Sonia again who I hadn’t seen since I left Nelson so long ago! Friday morning Sonia and a couple of her friends and I went for breakfast at Fergburger.
We had a little house warming party at our new place on Friday night. Turned out to be a real quiet night after the antics everyone got up to the day before, but was still good. Played a couple drinking games, and had a laugh. It was basically the roomies and Bobbie and Andy who use to live in my room before I moved in. They had been running a lodge in Japan since I had moved into the room in Dec. (Japans ski/snowboard season).
Saturday afternoon Ann, Bobbie and I headed out on a road trip to Balclutha. It took us about 2.5 hours to get there. Ann use to work down there and one of her friends was moving to Oz. It was a really really good night Cluther is a “small town” of about 4,000 people. Bobbie who was with us was pretty much a celebrity. She must have ended up telling her story about being in Tokyo during the Quake a million times. We has some really amazing Kiwi’s put us up for the night and I think we had been adopted to stay at 3 other people’s houses for the next night. Although we didn’t end up staying and headed home the next day. Not after heading out to the beautiful Catlin’s area for fish and chips. It somehow took us about 4 hours to get home. It was early to bed that night for some much needed rest.
The next day I managed to book myself on for a FREE Skippers Canyon Jet Boat ride that I had won at Red Rock the night Toni and Kate were leaving town. The trip was really great! It takes nearly an hour to get form Queenstown to where the boat is and, not because it’s very far away but, because you head up a windy road which turns into a bit of a goat track on the way there. They tell you loads about the history of the canyon and show you a few of the spots where some of the Lord of The Rings stuff was filmed. It also just so happened we drove by another film crew on the way in. These boats are basically Jet ski’s only bigger and can turn on a dime and pretty much go anywhere in the water. The drivers like to head full speed into a rock that may have a jut out that goes just over your head and pull a full 360 just before hitting the rocks. They also took us up to see the Pipe Line bungee which shut down about 10 years ago because they built the Nevis which was higher. The full trip took about 3.5 hours and I’m really glad I did it!
Once I got home again I had to get ready real quick as we all headed over to Claudia’s for a BBQ. It was a great afternoon the sun was shining and we had loads of great food on the BBQ. Garlic bread, curry rice salad, pasta salad, steak, pavlova with strawberries, chicken, and more! It was really great to have such a chill afternoon with such a great group of people. We even finished with a game of Cranium, although we weren’t really playing by the rules and it is still a little clear who actually won. Not sure there is anything I could have changed in the weekend that could make for a better last weekend in Qtown! Even the weather was great all weekend! Sunshine and summer time!
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