Today, the adventure stuff began. We woke up this morning, got ready and walked into town for some breakfast. We ate at a great little place called post office cafe. Jason had salmon and egg on a roll or bagel (can't remember) and I had sweet ricotta pancakes with figs and bananas. We both ordered iced coffee, forgetting how iced coffee is served down under. New Zealand does the same thing to iced coffee that australia does. It's not just coffee over ice...it's a while spectacle with cream that looks like ice cream (I don't eat that stuff cuz I am not a fan of it). Overall, an amazing breakfast....
We checked in at the queenstown rafting office in the center of town at 12:30 and rode the shuttle bus up to the shotover river where we put on jackets and locked up our possessions. They took our pictures a few times, once before getting in the boatels several other times while on it, from the shore. That ride was so much fun! The boat went speeding up and down the river, manuvering in and out and around the bends of sharp rocks, faking us out like we were going to crash into them. Then, at various times, he'd make it do 360 degree turns...so much fun!
After getting off the jetboat, we were directed next to the rafting outfit, where we were giving wetsuits, booties, jackets and life vests and were crammed into these things. We got on another bus for a 45 minutes crazy ride up through skippers canyon, which is a winding road high up on a large mountain...not for the faint-hearted (it was narrow, with no bumpers on the sides, either). I thought that Jason was going to have a coronary...
Once to the river, we got instructions, were divided into groups and got in our rafts. The rapids topped out at grade 5, which are pretty much the biggest. It was a pretty long trip down the river, ending with a dark tunnel that dropped out into the final rapids, which were huge! Overall...an awesome experience!
When we got back into town, we came back
To the hotel, changed and went back into town for dinner. We wound up eating at a Mexican restaurant where we had to taste all of the crazy-titled hot sauces, the funniest one being named "burn in hell, Osama"...absolutely hilarious...
Next up tomorrow...massage/floatation times, ziplining and luge...
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