We woke up to a light drizzle, and packed up the van which is like playing tetras (turn the bag this way…no that way, no try this one on end…. yah that fits…). Once on the road we drove through beautiful alpine scenery and saw our first Merino sheep, Ice Breakers actually had signs along the road at pastures that had their sheep! The van did ok, she is much slower and made it up the hills but we still all held our breaths at each rise. We did make it to Queenstown in a few hours, the rain stopped and we spent the day shoe shopping for Ben since his shoes are in the Vancouver airport, while the rest of us passed the time browsing various over priced outdoor stores that were full of cool gear. After finding a pair we walked to the lake and found a rally car race was finishing. There were teams from all over the world, we watched a few cars cross the finnish line, then set out to find a pizza joint. We talked to some locals and heard Winni's was good so we went there to have pizza and some NZ beer and picked up on some more kiwi slang, Jug means pitcher, good to know. The pizza was very good and we all filled up.
After dinner we went to Moke Lake DOC campground for the night, it was supposed to be 20min from Queenstown, it took us a bit longer to get there in the Serena. We drove through pasture land over gravel roads (of course) before we arrived at the lake. The setting was pretty with mountains on all sides, a big lake and little baby sheep running up and down the hills playing. There were lots of places to camp so we found an isolated area for us and the rugby game that would be taking place after the tents were set up. Once the guys realized they are not spring chickens things settled down and we spend 20min deciding what direction was what, Paul thought he found a compass on Kaseys I-phone, but he really found the Safari internet icon! We looked on our road atlas and once we found the general direction it was amazing how every one was pointing in the right direction!
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