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10/02/2010
On the way to Wanaka we stopped off at Lake Matheson, also known as Mirror lake. It usually has amazing mirror vies of Mount cook and Mount Tasman, but it was pouring with rain when we arrived, so had to settle with a postcard.
On arrival at Base Wanaka, everyone from our bus was impressed with the modern, clean hostel, we shared a room with Nat, Holly, Becky and Charlotte, so yet again Alex found himself surrounded by girls. While we were there the Base hostel chain we doing a 5 or 10 night offer, so you could pay $119 for 5 nights at any Base hostel or $225 for 10 nights, as we knew we were staying in towns that Base hostels for at least 5 nights, we decided to book it. So it would cost us $24 per night each rather than $29ish or more.
Once we'd found our room and had a little look around the hostel we popped to the supermarket to get a few supplies the went for a wonder around the town and to have a look at the lake. Lots of people had told us that Wanaka is like a smaller, quieter Queenstown, this is very true. We knew the next stop was Queenstown so didnt want to do anything too extreme here and as we were trying to save some pennies, decided to just chill for the day. We went for a drink at a little pub/cafe on the lakefront which had a dj playing chilled tunes outside, and sampled one of the locally brewed beers in the garden.
It was ladies night in he hostel's bar - Mint, with $2 "Champagne" for all the ladies. So being a girlie room (bar Alex) we went down to investigate, just for 1 drink... and it turned out there was a competition going on, with most of the lads from our bus dressed as women in order to get the cheap drinks, including Vince, (the guy who peirced his ear and shaved and dyed his hair for the poo party) - who decided to shave all his arm and leg hair to look more like a women. It was quite funny, pretty Brannigans esq but was entertaining. We didnt stay too late because we had to be up early for the bus to Queenstown, WOOP! Excited to be reunited with Millsy and the gang for more fun!!
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