Queenstown

Day 9: Fly to Queenstown, Explore the City, Welcome dinner, night out, Meet new faces, Jays Jumper,

The next day was filled with travel to the south island and the beautiful city of Queenstown. A city that feels like it was designed to bring in two types of people: the extremely rich and backpackers. It gave me strong Colorado Springs vibes, even though I've never been there. We also met the new fresh faces that would be joining us to replace the four we lost. In good fashion, we went out for dinner where I finally found a good glass pint glass (which I nicked of course), and had another night out to welcome the new additions to our group.

Fresh Faces:
Jarno - Ned
Shonna - Scotland
Aby - GB
Danielle - GB

Funny enough, we only ended up losing Amy from the north island members as 3 of them followed us to Queenstown for work and travel before they moved on. Bryony works in one of the Queenstown hotels, Max plans on working/traveling in the city, and Nic came down a day late to travel the south Island.

This aspect of the night also began the infamous Jays jumper addition to my wardrobe. During the night out, I noticed that Jay had taken off his short sleeve jumper and rested it on one of the chairs for safe keeping. In my tispy nature, I thought it would be funny to put it on and see how long it would take for Jay to notice it was missing. However, when I grabbed the jumper for the first time, I didn't realize just how much I had fallen in love with it. I ended up wearing it the rest of the night after exclaiming how comfortable it was and how much I enjoyed it. Jay ended up parting with it saying that it suited me better despite it being as size XL. I immediately bought him a case of beer as payment. The rest of the trip Jays Jumper and myself were inseparable until the infamous pool night which I shall bring up later.Read more