Today was a a full day of sight seeing! Though it was starting to clear up in Wanaka, the wind was still quite strong. We spotted a hill top from town that we knew would have amazing views so we eventually made our way up there after finding some raved about coffee at the Chop Shop. The Chop Shop is a small clothing store for both adults and kids but inside at the cash desk in the back they have a little fancy coffee machine where the Aussie guy was very adamant that what I wanted was a Long Mac. (Short for long macchiato). Definitely a good cuppa joe but I still prefer a 'long black', which is basically an americano with less water so it's stronger, then I add milk to cool it down and make it creamy. (Not a fan of steamed or microwaved milk..changes the taste too much.)The Famous Cinema Paradiso is here in Wanaka and we bought our tickets ahead of time to see Thor this evening. (You know how I hate to be late for a movie.)
Having had a snack we were ready to head out to Puzzling World on recommendation by Ryan's cousin Sarah. We saw it on the way in to Wanaka the day before and thought it looked like a giant play area, assuming it was just for kids. Turns out it's for big kids too! ;)
True to her word, Puzzling World was totally worth it. The Illusions Room was stomach-churning cool. (p.s. Don't go hungover...) And "The Great Maze Labyrinth" with it's 1.5km in confusing passages, was a super fun challenge having to find all for 4 corners before finding your way out again. Pretty sure we beat the average! :o)
Back home (our tiny cabin at the Top 10) to search for our next 'home/accommodations' in Queenstown. (Queenstown is only an hour away, so close we can taste it.) In Franz Joseph we stayed at the Top 10 Holiday Park as well and should have purchased the Top 10 Discount card there, not realizing we would be staying in them all over NZ. We came to our senses and purchased it today saving us a fair amount of money and more throughout the year being able to use it in Australia as well. The card costs $49; saved $12 at our current cabin and saved another $40.00 for our accommodations in Queenstown for the week. We just got paid $3.00! YEAH! We'll also get a discount on the ferry when we decide to head back up to the North Island.
We had some time to kill and the road past our cabin looked kinda cool and not touristy busy so we drove, and drove...the mountains were amazing as usual and we saw random sheep in the fields which is quite normal on the South Island; there were also sheep on road in front of us. WHAT? Holy crap! There is a whole herd of sheep blocking the road in front of us...we slowed down to a crawl...shock in our eyes, laughing at the sight of sheep nuggets everywhere, sheep running every which way, meheheheh'ing loudly. Then Ryan says "Why aren't you videoing?' Oh right, haha.. I was so excited to see sheep on the road, actually moving more than their mouths that I was almost star struck. As luck would have it, there were two herds of sheep and I got the second one on video. Oh man...that was hilariously fun! I love sheep!
We eventually headed back to town for our movie, got our wine, beer and popcorn and found a nice comfy couch in the middle of the middle! Perfect. Cesar would be proud. For real, a whole theater of comfy couches and chairs. I took my shoes off and we curled up together to watch Thor. Half way through the movie was intermission where you could get more wine, beer, ice cream, popcorn and warm freshly baked cookies. That's right! It's all you smelled just before intermission and it's all you could think about. We didn't succumb as we were pretty full already but gosh...who can say no to warm freshly baked cookies?
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