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Published: February 17th 2010
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Happy 33rd Birthday to Brooke, my sister!!!!
This morning we were on the bus by 8:45am and our first stop was only 5 minutes away from the hostel, Puzzle World. I was feeling really sick with a sore throat so I didn’t go in but Pete was very excited and enjoyed the maze along with 4 different illusion rooms.
Description by Pete - It was great. I went in and had high hopes for the place and I wasn’t disappointed. There were some crazy 3-D holograms better than I have ever seen. There was a creepy room where there were a bunch of concave faces of men that appeared to the eye to be protruding from the wall. Everywhere you went it looked as if the faces were following you.
There was another room where everything was slanted. There was a feature that made water appear to run up hill. There was also a little chair on rails you could sit in and it made it seem as if you were rolling up hill. It was great.
The other cool part of the illusion zone was a room which made two people of similar height look way
bigger or smaller than they actually were. The ceiling sloped to one side and the doors were scaled to size the slope. Also the checked tiled floors must have gotten smaller as they neared the smaller side of the room. From afar the room looked perfectly in balance and even, but as shown in the pictures it is quit crazy.
Then maze was the best part. The sing read the maze could be completed in anywhere from 30 minutes to one hour. I figure it took me around 45 minutes to complete it. There were four colored towers that you find your way to in order to complete the maze. The harder challenge had you complete the maze in order of a specific color, I tried this and started with the first color in the sequence, yet I had inadvertently found two other colored towers along the way.
On the way out Elyse and I took some pictures then boarded the bus. I was really glad to know that I was one of a few people that had the patience to finish the maze on that day. It was a rewarding challenge to start the day.
Then
we were off to Queenstown, Adventure Capital of the Southern Hemisphere, about 120 kilometers away but we didn’t arrive until 3pm. We stopped at AJ Hackett Bungy at the Kawarau Bridge which is the site of the very 1st Commercial Bungy site. We watched a quick movie on the history of Bungy and then got to see how they make the Bungy cords. Only 1 person on the bus signed up to do this jump as it is 43 meters=about 137 feet.
There was a huge viewing deck to watch all the different people jump. Out of the 50 passengers on our bus I think about 5 more ended up jumping after watching others go. One guy even jumped twice as he enjoyed it so much.
Once we made it to our hostel Pete wasn’t happy cause they didn’t have our 3 night reservation. Once the guy found it the reservation was for Monday night only, not Saturday-Tuesday BUMMER. The guy was cool and got us into a dorm room for the night then got us a double room for the next too nights and gave us a discount. That made up for it but sucked for a
little while.
After we got settled into our room we decided to check out the town and eat MEXICAN as we saw a restaurant from the bus called Sombrero’s. We started off with Chips & Salsa & Guacamole (HMMM) then I had a beef(carne) enchilada and Pete had a chicken (pollo) burrito. We haven’t forgotten our SD roots of lovin’ Mexican food and Miss it TONS…
Early to bed tonight as we have to be on the bus by 7:45 to go to Milford Sound in the morning.
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