Rest Day

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I spent the morning recovering from the party the night before.  We had all gone out to the Red Rock to meet up with other Kiwi Experience passengers and drivers past and present.  Queenstown is normally the point in the trip where people split up and do their own thing or carry on with the tour so we were promissed a party - which is exactly what we got!!  A few of us braved the cold in order to experience the Minus 5 bar, where everything is made of ice including the glasses.  The half hour in the bar wearing thick 'parka' style jackets and furry booties and drinking cocktails was great fun, the maximum time you are aloud to stay is half an hour, but my warm scottish blood could easily have lasted another 30min.
When we were finally chucked out we headed to a typical backpacker haunt to drink the famous cocktails out of teapots!!  So as you can probably tell I needed a sleep in to recover then after that I hit the shops to buy up some souveniers, then to the information centre to catch up with fellow ex-Aberdeen student friend Fiona.
It was about time I had an early night and I snuggled into my cosy bunk at about 9.30pm so that I would be fully refreshed for skiing at the 'Remarkables' ski slopes the next day.

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Photos

Minus Five
All dressed up for the -5 temperature of the Ice bar

Ice Ice Baby
Was it the temperature and the early stages of hypothermia or just the vodka laced cocktails that made us do crazy things?