More Kiwi Lingo
Our roommate Steve showed us this YouTube cartoon and we couldn’t help ourselves from sharing it with all of you. For those of you who are coming to visit us, this will give you some good vocab words to practice before you arrive. See notes below for translation.
Chup = Potato Chip
Bru = Bro or Friend
Beached As = Really Beached
Heaps Beached As = Really Really Beached
On another note, we’ve been continuing to enjoy Queenstown. I don’t think the views from our deck will ever get old. We ventured into town a couple evenings ago to meet up with Brad and Gretchen for dinner. There were dark clouds looming overhead when we left and although we packed our rain jackets, the clouds let loose about half way to town. We showed up at Dux-d-Lux, a local brewery, completely soaked. We still haven’t succumbed to buying umbrellas. Thankfully they found a table by a fireplace and we spent the next hour rotating in front of the heat, trying to dry off. We ate at a delicious pizza joint in town called The Cow, located down a dark ally, which we of course followed up with a visit to Patagonia Chocolates for some hot chocolate and ice cream.
We spent last night at home with our roomies, cooking an Indian dinner and then watching a British classic and one of their favorite movies, Hot Fuzz. After taking Ali to work today, Steve took us up to the Remarkables, the jagged mountain range that we stare at every morning from our deck. He has wanted to hike up to Lake Alta ever since he moved to Queenstown and we were excited to join him. A treacherous drive up the mountains leads to the Remarkable Ski Field. We hiked from the ski area up to Lake Alta which sits at the base of the Remarkables. We, of course, checked out the ski resort as well. The lift accessible ski runs seem pretty flat compared to what we are used to, but there seems to be a ton of steeper shots if you’re willing to hike a little. But winter won’t be here for another 6 month so we’ll enjoy the hiking trails while we can.