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I have muscles I never knew about following the last few days of activities but up with the lark again to grab a croissant before starting our mad dog river boarding morning! Rain has found us again but we spit on the rain with our cunning water activity approach!
With three of us on the trip we got one on one attention which proved rather handy later on. We arrived and got kitted out in wetsuits ready for the water. What followed for me led to some sheer panic as what I thought was the test run turned out to be it! 5 grade 3 rapids later I was not happy but rob was lovin it so over to him...
Ignore Anne, it was frikin awesome though given that I was at times struggling with the sheer power of the rapids I can understand why Anne was a little uneasy - the guides said that it takes 15 or so runs before you can even begin to have some control in the rapids!
After being spat out of the washing machine that was the rapids, the water calmed, the rain cleared and we were pulled on a jetski at speed to the end of the run. Great fun. A slide on the old gold mining shaft led us scooting over the river on our bodyboard and brave rob jumped in and played on the swing too pulling off a fancy backflip after several failed and painful looking efforts. No fear that boy!
Sadly the rain meant the shotover jet boat trip that afternoon was postponed and so we headed up on the gondola to the luge for the afternoon. (over to rob for the next bit..)
On our way up on the gondola we saw our first bungy station and jumper. This one was about 25m and the jumper 'f'ed his way the whole way down. It was at this point that I started to question my earlier decision to book myself onto NZ's tallest bungy at 134m for my very first jump the next day.
Once at the top we took a chair lift to the luge track. Like the tortoise Anne started off slow and steady, but by the race decider managed to pull off an unlikely victory over me (I can only assume my kart was broken!!!). Trying not to dwell on my loss we headed to the viewing platform and tucked into some potato wedges overlooking the whole of Queenstown and the airfield we took off from for our skydive a day or so earlier.
Paralysed with tiredness once back at the hotel i fell asleep leaving Anne to do some laundry - along with her dirties from the holiday wifey also cleaned everything I had worn, which totalled - one t-shirt, pair of shorts, a pair of pants and one sock (i must have been a hippy in a previous life). We then never made it to dinner as we were both tucked up in bed by 9 after our day's strenuous activity.
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