Hey from Queenstown! This is me standing opposite our hotel with lake wakitipo and the remarkables (mountains) behind - isn't that just beautiful! The mountain range is called the remarkables because the ridge follows the line from north to south exactly - it only happens on one other mountain range in the world! pretty remarkable hey!

so whilst in queenstown we went horseriding in a place called Glenochy and i just fell in love with the place. if i could live anywhere I would want to live there. just look at what i would be waking up to every day. i just couldnt get enough. the horse ride was brilliant too, we went through rivers, we cantered along beaches and through the plains (gav didn't but he had a great time too) the whole experience was just mindblowing. oh and incase any of the backgrounds look familiar its where they filmed lord of the rings! our guides told us about the filming, where it took place, one of the horses on our trek was riden in the film! weve riden through the film set of lord of the rings! feels very cool! god i want to live there!

After horseriding, we dashed in and out of the hotel changing into our cossies and went river boarding in the afternoon! there will be some more pics of us actually doing it soon but it was so much fun! basically, on the rapids you go white water rafting on, we were going down on a body board! how great does that sound! i did gulp a few mouth fulls of water (yes dad there was some left in the river) and gav did get a little scared at times - even he will admit that but we both really enjoyed it! been thrown around by a rapid and whirled around by a whirlpool, it was fantastic! the paddling was hard work and we all had cramp in our legs and feet but it was soooo cool! when we got back we went rock jumping, i only jumped from 5m which was pretty wimpy compared to the girls doing 25m but that was high enough for me! they also had a slide that you went down on your body boarding and went skimming across the river, and a tarzan style rope swing and they were all great fun! Queenstown is definitely the adventure capital and we definitely made the most of it! what an incredible and fun day! and the fun didn't stop there...!