Weather Woes and Luging

This morning we were all set to go paragliding and it seemed like a great day to my amateur eye but it was cancelled!  Apparently it was too windy which was annoying but I suppose safety is more important. :)

Queenstown is known as the adventure capitol of the world and there is literally nothing in town except a bunch of restaurants and then all these crazy excursions. The problem is so many of them are weather dependent and the weather is always on and off. New Zealand does seem to be really into safety though and have high standards so that was comforting.  So once our paragliding was cancelled, we spend the rest of the day walking around town. We saw a cute little outdoor art market where we saw the cutest pug!! We also popped into a tourism shop where we lucked out with a person who gave us a great deal on a Milford tour for tomorrow and helped us save money on a scuba tour we had already booked for next week in Cairns. 

And then another delicious Queenstown lunch!

After having lunch, we took the gondola up the mountain to go luging!  The luge was super fun and we each went down 5 times. I generally hate go karts and driving type activities because I'm scared I'll crash but the luge was super fun!

 

 

After luging, we jumped in the car to Arrowhead which is a cute old mining town.  We walked around for just a little bit as it was smaller than we had expected.  Then we headed back to Queenstown, ate dinner, and then again were in bed by like 9pm. For whatever reason, we just can't quite shake this time change. We get up early because we went to bed early the previous day and then we can't stay up late!  Ha!