tell me if its so, that all the good girls go to heaven, well heaven knows
here a few reasons why flying australia domestic, across the tasman, and new zealand domestic are infinitely better than flying in north america.
1. food/ drinks are free
2. the flights leave on time
3. despite a pending mechanics strike on qantas, there are no interruptions to the scheduled flights
4. the beverage cart on air new zealand is referred to as "the bar"
im in queenstown at the moment, adrenaline capital of the world. the south island is awesome, very picturesque. queenstown is where people go for "the snow" and i imagine in the winter it would be pretty nice to relax and ski and do winter sports. seeing as it is currently summer, there is no snow on the tops of the mountains.. the remarkables are out my hotel room window. we are so far south that the sun sets at 10pm. crazy. even more so because i am not in this time zone properly yet.
some of yesterday and today was spent trying to figure out what time it is at home. auckland is two hours ahead of melbourne. that means its 18 hours ahead of toronto and 21 hours ahead of vancouver. or 6 and 3 when one works the other way and subtracts a day. or take the short cut and add a clock application to firefox like i did. i know what time it is in 8 different cities. just for fun.
today/ tonight we took a gondola ride up a mountain and had a nice view down to the city and water below. there is a bungy jump tower at the top of the mountain. its set so that when someone jumps off the platform they free fall down the mountain. no bridges with water below like in all the movies. jumping off the side of a mountain seems slightly more intense than jumping off a bridge over water. i had just eaten a feast of a dinner at the restaurant at the top of the mountain, so i had an excuse not to try it.
for the second time in a week i am sunburned. woo awesome, i am red. it was a bit much of me to think that new zealand actually has an ozone layer and i would be okay on a somewhat cloudy day. no. wrong. i have a farmer's tan line too, how horrible. at least it will now even out all the (dis)colour from last week.
the remarkables
queenstown from above
1. food/ drinks are free
2. the flights leave on time
3. despite a pending mechanics strike on qantas, there are no interruptions to the scheduled flights
4. the beverage cart on air new zealand is referred to as "the bar"
im in queenstown at the moment, adrenaline capital of the world. the south island is awesome, very picturesque. queenstown is where people go for "the snow" and i imagine in the winter it would be pretty nice to relax and ski and do winter sports. seeing as it is currently summer, there is no snow on the tops of the mountains.. the remarkables are out my hotel room window. we are so far south that the sun sets at 10pm. crazy. even more so because i am not in this time zone properly yet.
some of yesterday and today was spent trying to figure out what time it is at home. auckland is two hours ahead of melbourne. that means its 18 hours ahead of toronto and 21 hours ahead of vancouver. or 6 and 3 when one works the other way and subtracts a day. or take the short cut and add a clock application to firefox like i did. i know what time it is in 8 different cities. just for fun.
today/ tonight we took a gondola ride up a mountain and had a nice view down to the city and water below. there is a bungy jump tower at the top of the mountain. its set so that when someone jumps off the platform they free fall down the mountain. no bridges with water below like in all the movies. jumping off the side of a mountain seems slightly more intense than jumping off a bridge over water. i had just eaten a feast of a dinner at the restaurant at the top of the mountain, so i had an excuse not to try it.
for the second time in a week i am sunburned. woo awesome, i am red. it was a bit much of me to think that new zealand actually has an ozone layer and i would be okay on a somewhat cloudy day. no. wrong. i have a farmer's tan line too, how horrible. at least it will now even out all the (dis)colour from last week.
the remarkables
queenstown from above