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We arrived in Wanaka Friday 8th August around lunch time and after a brief look around we all decided to go to Puzzling World, which was an attraction with a 2 storey maze and various illusion rooms. It was really good- one of the illusion rooms was really bizzare as it was on a slant so it looked like balls were rolling uphill rather than down. We then went into the maze- we decided we would go in teams; Cazza and Liz against Matt and Mark. We had to find the four coloured corners and then the way back to the exit. Cazza and I were storming ahead until we had to make our way back to the exit and could not for the life of us find it! Matt and Mark still had to find the yellow corner and they had found it and us before we had moved from the area we were in! We all decided to try and find the way out together and eventually succeeded after Cazza found the right way!!
After Puzzling World we went back to the campervan and decided to park up for the night by the cinema as Matt and Mark were going to see a film there. Cazza and I went for a couple of drinks as it was freezing cold in the van and met up with the boys later in the pub.
The next morning (Saturday) we were rudely awakened by Roy from the council at 5.45am saying we were illegally parked and the police would be on the way if we didn't move and risked $500 each, so we legged it!!! We drove around for a bit and then decided to go back round the corner from where we were parked in the 1st place! We then moved to a car park to park for the day while Matt and I went skiing.
Skiing was so funny! We went on the Cadrona ski fields which were around 45minute drive to get to. Matt hadn't really skied before and I am not the greatest so we went over to the beginner area to start practising. I went up on the little lift which was similar to a t-bar, I turned around and Matt was in a pile on the floor! On his 2nd attempt he stopped a split second before he was supposed to get off and started going backwards down the hill! It was so funny, the poor people who were on thier way up fell over Matt and his poles that he'd thrown when falling!!
We had a brilliant day! In the afternoon I thought it was time we went on a few more of the beginner slopes however didn't realise until we were have way down that we had to go on an intermediate run to get there! Matt fell the whole way down and then near the end went so fast that he nearly took out an entire group of skiers!!
After skiing we met Carol and Mark back at the campervan who had been walking around the lake and looking around the shops in Wanaka.
We went to a campsite later on and started watching the olympics which we are now addicted to and spend all our time glued to the tv!!
Wanaka was lovely- a really pretty town and one of our favourite places in new Zealand. Sunday morning we began our drive to Queenstown.
We'll update from there
L&C
xxx
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