To Queenstown
Monday,
22 December 2008
6:31
a.m.
Today
we are planning to go to Queenstown, we will be stopping at a tourist
attraction for salmon farming as well as a tourist attraction where we can see
some man-made maze, which is good for the children. The maze will be situated
in Wanaka, which is approximately half way to our destination at Queenstown.
Hopefully we can find the maze's location alright. My plan is to go for an
information centre in the Wanaka township and then ask around and look for
information sheets about the Maze place, which is called Puzzling World. It is
a very suitable location for families with kids.
After
arriving at Queenstown we are planning for some Gondola rides to the peak to
panoramic view of the city
Last night we had a lovely dinner,
which is just like what we have at home, this is so good because it means that
all of us will recharge ourselves and be ready for the days ahead.
22/12/2008, 7:47 a.m.
I tried to play Age of Empires
while waiting for the others to wake up and get on with the day's schedule, but
what I found out is that I did not have the ISO cd image file and so I could
not start the game properly. What a bomber. I also gave counter strike a go but
there is no one to play with and also I do not have a mouse, it means that the
game is boring to play.
Looks
like the others are slowly getting up now.
22/12/2008,
7:52 a.m.
For
breakfast I had porridge, Chinese pie and boiled flavoured eggs. It was
fulfilling and sufficient for a good breakfast.
22/12/2008,
10:36 p.m.
Today
we went to more places than I have ever planned, this is mostly because I
thought Tongtong will be able to make it for most of the natural scenic walks,
but in fact he successfully participated. Places we went to include the Salmon
Farm, some waterfalls and the
Also
there is the Puzzling World at Wanaka which was real fun. In one of the tilted
rooms we were all made dizzy by all the tiltedness. The water appears to be
flowing upwards because of the entire room have an tilt angle associated, the
centre of gravity which suppose to go straight downwards toward the earth's
centre appears to be going in a tilted fashion. There was also the Hall of
Faces where when you move the faces all turn to look at you.
The
best thing about the puzzling world is the maze, you had to find all the four
coloured corner towers before you can actually start finding way back to the
start, to go back to the start of the maze one had to go back in a particular
channel and only through that channel can that person come out of the maze. My
Mum were able to find all the corners but weren't able to find her way back to
the start to finish off the maze trip. She used the emergency exit because my
sister Bonnie was always wanting to go to toilet and mum had to take that
emergency exit as an alternative.
After
arriving at Queenstown we quickly managed to find the motel were booked, so we
unpacked all our things to the room
