South Island Trip Day #4

The day had finally come for the first time since we'd left Auckland that we were finally going to...... you guessed it....... SHOWER!!! We woke up at sunrise yet again and all we had on our minds was that nice hot shower and finally getting clean, but then we realized we couldn't actually check into our hostel until 9 am so we drove to the lakefront and just sat there. Well stupid me forgot to turn the lights off and the car died, while we were sitting in front of a group of people who I then had to go ask if I could borrow some jumper cables (really a rental car without jumpers.... that should definitely be included). After a few attempts I finally came across a German boy and and Austrian girl who had a set of jumpers and were willing to help us get our car started back up. The girl comforted us by telling us that their car had died like their second day into their trip. At 9 we then headed to the hostel where we found out that we couldn't actually get into our room until 2pm. Sweet. Luckily, they were nice enough to let us use the showers before we were headed out to wander around Queenstown.

Queenstown is probably one of the cutest little towns I've ever seen. It's full of tiny little shops, gorgeous architecture and wonderfully nice people. We first went just walking around and then we saw a couple of souvenir shops to go into to get some things for back home. While walking we saw the first Mexican restaurant in all of New Zealand. I swear to you that they are nowhere to be found here. Thai, Chinese, Indian..... all over the place.... but Mexican, nowhere. After seeing the restaurant, we knew we had to eat dinner there for Sarah's birthday and then we sent her off on her skydiving adventure. While she was gone Becca and I did some more roaming around until it was finally time to check into our hostel. Once we got there we met all  9 of our hostelmates. The rest of the day was pretty boring. We laid around and got ready for a night out because we had heard about a blindfolded bar crawl that our hostel was putting on and we knew we had to do it.


First we headed to dinner at the Mexican restaurant for Sarah's birthday where I had the tastiest enchiladas of my life. It was soo nice to finally have Mexican in my life again. After that we were off to get some green monster (for those of you who want to know, message me and I'll tell you all about it) and then it was off to the blindfolded bar crawl which was a crazy experience and something I don't think I would do again. Somehow being led across a strange town in a line of people just freaks me out. :) Then it was home for the night to get up and explore some more the next day.