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Day 13 Shire Reckoning: Highday, Foreyule 17 -- Queenstown Up for an early trip into Queenstown and got a lot of knick-knack shopping done and some browsing around the town. My landmark is established...Internet Depot. Hehehe I'm incorrigible.
Malia, doing her Galadriel impression. Then we head to Karawa (?) river for some gentle river rafting (HA!). A lot of folks have booked a bunch of heavy duty rafting, but I don't feel like doing the whole wet suit thing, neither does Laura. We both just want to paddle along the Anduin, and go by the Pillars of the Argonath. I can go serious rafting on the Arkansas river anytime I want, so I con Penny into doing this other 'gentler' rafting. I kind of notice that stuff has not gone to plan when they hand out wetsuits and everything to everyone....oh well...we wound up getting wrecked! LOL! It was loads fun. Laura had a blast too even though she was really nervous starting out. We all went swimming in glacially fed river water, for the experience of it....and it was as cold as it sounds. And we went right by where the Pillars of Argonath would be, very very cool. We even hit a class 4 rapid at the end!
Penny got knocked out of the boat right at the end and wound up going under. She came up with a big smile on her face. That's my girl! Hooked up with some Aussie friends from the tour, LilAnne (from Norway), and Laura and we all went out to dinner at Speights Alehouse. Great food! And great beer.
Then on the way home I finally found the New Zealand All Blacks wool vest exactly what I was looking for. Spent more money....urgh. Back to the hotel...Finished Earthsea book 1 and now onto some SciFi...Card's Shadow Puppets....("Ho Bean.") Can't stay up....tomorrow is the last day. |
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Day 14