Brenda's Queenstown Top n Bottom

Now that we finally have better WiFi I can enter my Queenstown highlights and disappointments. Like David, Queenstown has been my fav location so far. Didn’t really disappoint so those are ones I really needed to stretch for.
TOP 6:
1. Flight back from Milford Sound. Great views. No, amazing views. And we didn’t have to sit in the bus another 5 hrs back.
2. The views of the mountains surrounding the city. The Remarkables range was truly remarkable and even had snow on it for us.
3. The Luge rides. We did 6 each and of course I tried to go as fast as I could. Even caught some air a few times going through the dips section.
4. Seeing the new Thor movie with David. Not going to spoil anything to say what I thought of it, but will say that it was so fun to see how happy it made David to see the movie early. He was like a kid on Christmas.
5. Milford Sound boat ride. It is a truly beautiful place with lots of high fjords and waterfalls. We even got to see a dolphin🐬, penguins 🐧 and seals .
6. The weather. It was a bit drizzly when we arrived the first evening but nothing to keep an Oregonian off the streets. The rest of our days there were quite good regarding weather.

DISAPPOINTMENTS
1. Somehow hurt my back so I wasn’t able to play disc golf the second time when it wasn’t busy.
2. The 5 1/2 hr bus ride to Milford Sound.
3. Continuation of #2, very twist road so took motion sickness pill. Part way through it wasn’t doing the trick so I took the full dose (Total 2 pills). Well that fixed my sickness but then I got really dizzy and sleepy. Not a fun feeling. Fortunately wore off by boat ride.
4. How expensive NZ is. Seems more so than Australia. It is what it is.
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