Good morrrning!!!!
This day starts with Becca on a hanglide trip. She was supposed to leave us the key to the car and her room key for the hostel but didn't actually do either of those so when we went to check out at 10, we couldn't technically check her out and we had to explain to the people working at the front desk that we were leaving and had all of her stuff out of the room but that she wasn't able to be there to turn in her key because she was floating in the air like a bird. NBD. So Sarah and I head out to wander the town because we can't load anything into the car because we think that Becca has the keys and that means that we aren't able to leave Queenstown to go explore the small places around the city. So what do we do..... we get a hot dog and chips and go lay on the brick wall that overlooks Lake Wakitipu and stare and the Asian tourists giving their stereotypical peace sign pictures with their iPhone. Talk about hilarious. We then get a text message from Becca saying that she's on her way back from hangliding and asking us where she should meet us. We tell her that she's got the keys so we haven't been able to go anywhere and she says she swears she doesn't have them. Turns out, Sarah has had the keys in her purse the entire morning and we could have been exploring cool things instead of gawking at Asian tourists. We go and get the car, load it up and then head off to Arrowstown, a small town north of Queenstown. We first stopped at Coronet Peak where Becca spent the morning and just looked at the beautiful landscape and view of Queenstown from atop this gorgeous mountain. Then it was off to Arrowstown. I wasn't feeling well at this point so I decided to take a nap on a hillside while the others were off exploring the little colony. Let me tell you... it was probably the best I had slept the entire trip!!!
After Arrowstown, we started for Te Ana, the last place you can get food or gas before Milford Sound. We had to drive through all of this little bity towns to get to Te Anau and I spent most of the day sleeping across the backseat. Motion sickness was killer!!! At one point Sarah turns around and says "Dakota, sit up and put your seat belt on, there's a cop" and I was like "are we getting pulled over" and she goes "yep". So I sit up quickly and put my seat belt just as the cop was approaching the window. In New Zealand, if someone isn't wearing a seat belt, that person gets fined and the driver of the car gets fined so it was a good thing Sarah was looking out. The police woman starts talking to Becca about how she was speeding and how her license was about to expire and how she was going to write her a ticket. Holy crap did I feel bad!!!!!!....but it did provide us with something to laugh about for the rest of the trip because it happened in the smallest town with nobody around. From them on... we referred to it as "stupid Mossburn" About an hour later we arrived in Te Anau, headed to the grocery store to get some food for our trek to Milford and sat by the Lake Te Anau just at sunset to enjoy the last bit of sun on the lake. We then left Te Anau to get as close to Milford as possible to camp for the night and we found a cute little campsite that was like 5 bucks a person to stay at. Luckily for us, Sarah put the envelope in the wrong place so we ended up getting our money back the next day. That night, sleep was rough because it rained all night long. The cold and loud of the rain, along with the uncomfortableness of the car made it fairly difficult to sleep for the night but we were determined to be well rested for the next day at Milford Sound.
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