We Wanted Adventure… We Got It!

Posted by Ellie Carpenter on December 10, 2013

Two days ago we added our 10th country to the list, New Zealand! Our first day here we explored Queenstown which is the main city of this island consisting of 20,000 constant residents and 4,000 visitors a day! We are staying at a beautiful golf resort and every moment I’m there, I feel like I’m going to see a Hobbit running around in our backyard! Everything around us from the sky-blue rivers to the overwhelmingly gigantic mountains feels like it should be in a fairytale!!!

The last two days have been slightly more adventure packed.

The next day we woke up bright and early to do 4 things that we would never forget within 48 hours!

1- Climbing into a helicopter and watching the ground slowly become further and further away and not seeing it again until we landed on top of a glacier in 5° celsius weather and casually walking around! Looking back on it now, we’ve realized that some of our decisions that we made up there might not have been the smartest ones, but definitely the most adventurous! I think that you’ll see what I mean in the next pictures…

(Yes, that would be my Dad and my brother standing with their shirts off literally starting to freeze to death)

2- Ride on a jet boat going at least 100km an hour through a river with terrifying rapids and ragid rocks, centimeters away from us!

3- Ride the steepest gondola in Australia up a mountain, to take a 15 second class on how to use a Luge and then race down like a maniac on a path directly below the gondola we went up on to get there!