We spent a few days in Queenstown, appropriately nicknamed the adventure capital of the world. People come here to do all kinds of crazy sh*t. When I got in, I was in a shared dorm for the first night, and my roommates immediately showed me their videos of their 134m bungee jump from earlier that afternoon. Insane! It's supposedly the 2nd highest bungee in the world. And then they were going skydiving the next day. My friend Val and her coworker Steve got in the next morning and we took it easy our first day, went to go see some kiwi birds, walked around town, and got some drinks. We weren't too keen on throwing ourselves out of planes, but we did go jumping, sliding, and rappelling down gorges. It's called canyoning, and it's crazy fun!
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