The past week has been incredible! We started out at a local pharmacy in Caversham for a few days and then we rented a car to drive around Central Otago. I was the full-time driver since it’s cheaper for insurance because I’m 25. It took a little while to get used to the whole driving on the left thing, and they have this crazy right of way (give way) rule where if you are turning left, you must yield to other people turning into the lane you are about to turn into. I know that was kind of wordy, but pretty much it’s equivalent (back to the correct way of driving on the right hand side) to yielding to a person in oncoming traffic making a left-hand turn when you are making a right-hand turn. Absolutely insane. They are the only country in the world that does it this way and they are working on changing it because they realize it is so not the best way to drive. So after every stop or when we were driving in the city, Andrea would remind me which way I was going. Sometimes I would just talk out loud what I was doing and to whom I needed to give way just to make sure I was thinking like a Kiwi driver. Rather amusing at times, otherwise I got the hang of it. The roads are pretty windy and there are often times when there is no guard rail along a cliff.
We drove out to Queenstown and stopped by a vineyard and cheesery on the way. We did the tour of their cave cellar and we timed it perfectly since they were filling up the barrels during our tour. Quite interesting.
We made it out to Queenstown pretty late in the day so we got a place to stay for the night and went walking around downtown. It is nice in New Zealand for walking around town because the town centers are very compact. They next morning we drove around the lake to Glenorchy which is the gateway to where some of the filming for Lord of the Rings took place (for those that would like to know, a little town, named Paradise, past Glenorchy is the setting for Isengard).
I realized that I need to watch the Lord of the Rings movies again, because I don’t remember the movie names of any of the places on the map where they say filming was done. I know I keep saying this, but it is beautiful here. That was the hardest part about driving was that I didn’t get to take in all the scenery along the way.
Once we made our way back to Q-town, we took a gondola ride to take in the incredible views. The Remarkables mountain range is gorgeous!
While at the top of the mountain, we did the luge track and even though Andrea and I have both luged some pretty phenomenal places, we had a blast on this track. Cheers!
We drove out to Queenstown and stopped by a vineyard and cheesery on the way. We did the tour of their cave cellar and we timed it perfectly since they were filling up the barrels during our tour. Quite interesting.
We made it out to Queenstown pretty late in the day so we got a place to stay for the night and went walking around downtown. It is nice in New Zealand for walking around town because the town centers are very compact. They next morning we drove around the lake to Glenorchy which is the gateway to where some of the filming for Lord of the Rings took place (for those that would like to know, a little town, named Paradise, past Glenorchy is the setting for Isengard). 
I realized that I need to watch the Lord of the Rings movies again, because I don’t remember the movie names of any of the places on the map where they say filming was done. I know I keep saying this, but it is beautiful here. That was the hardest part about driving was that I didn’t get to take in all the scenery along the way. 
Once we made our way back to Q-town, we took a gondola ride to take in the incredible views. The Remarkables mountain range is gorgeous! 
While at the top of the mountain, we did the luge track and even though Andrea and I have both luged some pretty phenomenal places, we had a blast on this track. Cheers!
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