It's our last day in New Zealand, and we've pretty much had our share of adventuring. So we decided what better way to spend our last day than to drive out into the country to do some winetasting? Afterall, everybody keeps telling us that driving into the countryside is a "must-do." Well, if John's going to risk our lives driving on the wrong side of the road, might as well do it in style. When we called down to the Concierge this morning to inquire about rental cars, we had the choice of a Mazda compact, or shiny new BMW Z4 for only $20 more. That's like 50 cents in American dollars. :) Easy choice. We had a good amount of fun zooming around under the beautiful blue skies and trying not to crash into anything. We really liked the wines at Amisfield and Peregrine, both less than 30 minutes from Queenstown. We lingered at Amisfield a bit to chat with the girl in the tasting room who was from Chicago but extended her 4 month trip in Queenstown to 4 years. A stop for lunch at Waitiri was amazing. Waitiri is a tiny little winery housed in an old church, but they have an incredible kitchen and served us sumptuous platter of antipasti...fresh bread, cheeses, sausages, marinated vegetables. Yum! Was a very relaxed ending to our stay here in New Zealand. Tomorrow, we are off to Sydney, Australia, hopping through Christchurch to get there. We're super excited to see someplace new. Less so to pack our backpacks again. lol. Cheers, mates!
Monday, December 4, 2006
Wine tasting
It's our last day in New Zealand, and we've pretty much had our share of adventuring. So we decided what better way to spend our last day than to drive out into the country to do some winetasting? Afterall, everybody keeps telling us that driving into the countryside is a "must-do." Well, if John's going to risk our lives driving on the wrong side of the road, might as well do it in style. When we called down to the Concierge this morning to inquire about rental cars, we had the choice of a Mazda compact, or shiny new BMW Z4 for only $20 more. That's like 50 cents in American dollars. :) Easy choice. We had a good amount of fun zooming around under the beautiful blue skies and trying not to crash into anything. We really liked the wines at Amisfield and Peregrine, both less than 30 minutes from Queenstown. We lingered at Amisfield a bit to chat with the girl in the tasting room who was from Chicago but extended her 4 month trip in Queenstown to 4 years. A stop for lunch at Waitiri was amazing. Waitiri is a tiny little winery housed in an old church, but they have an incredible kitchen and served us sumptuous platter of antipasti...fresh bread, cheeses, sausages, marinated vegetables. Yum! Was a very relaxed ending to our stay here in New Zealand. Tomorrow, we are off to Sydney, Australia, hopping through Christchurch to get there. We're super excited to see someplace new. Less so to pack our backpacks again. lol. Cheers, mates!
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Will Megan be jealous when she sees this photo???
John,
You are sitting on the wrong side! Nice red color! Mama Polhemus would love it. Glad your last day was laid back and so enjoyable. On to Australia! Have fun.
Tank
Don't give your brother ideas about convertibles!
It's hard to believe Florida was chosen over UM! Well, our boys will do well at the Rose Bowl. Do you plan to go?
The Australians seem to love lanolin oil, a natural oil from the Australian Merino sheep’s wool, for skin care. See if this is true?
mom weizen
Rose Bowl tickets are going for about $200 on eBay.
Megan may be jealous, but it's not big deal. The Z4 (at least the one pictured here) handles great, but is severely underpowered, Megan would blow her doors off. Was damn hard driving on the wrong side though, all your instincts tell you to do the wrong thing.
Apparently lanolin is sticky or something? The guy in the sheep shearing demonstration said they were coveralls when shearing sheep to keep it from getting on their clothes. Haven't heard much mention about skin care yet though.
Haven't decided if we're going to the Rose Bowl yet or not, will depend on our friends probably. Looks like tickets are readily available via the alumni association. Alumns can buy up to 8 tickets at $150 a piece.
Ok, buy all 8 and then we'll sell them on eBay!
Hmmmm...maybe. Though, eBay was hard enough to use at home over a 6Mbps connection. Will have to think about trying it from across the world.
Hard to use -- what have you been smoking?
Smoking the "new" eBay interface.
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