June in Wanaka!!!

Well it’s been a while so about time I updated you!! I’ve been living in my new pad since Tuesday and it’s been fantastic!!

I moved out of the Hostel on Friday and it was fantastic!! I didn’t have to work on my last day so I had a lie in and chilled out, I was going to stay on Victoria’s sofa but ended up hooking up with Melissa and stayed at hers as her flatmates were away for the weekend. I’m sure we went out and had lots of drinkies on the Friday but it seems like so long ago now I can’t remember, I’m sure we had lots of giggles!! We headed out for a walk to the recycling centre on the Saturday, it was a lovely day. We were looking for outfits to make our clothes for Sunday’s Queens party!! Our friend Patrick had been out shooting pigs so Melissa went to help skin them up, we were still finishing off the venison stew from the kill he made earlier that week. Melissa cooked it up and it was delicious!! Back to the olden days here!!

Sunday arrived and it was all very exciting, we spent the day finishing off or costumes for the party and getting the wines and spirits in!!

Melissa and I got ready over at her house, Rachel came over to help us and have a drink and DJ came over too so he could just scoff our drink!! We finally headed over and it started off quite tame but once the drinks flowed it was a riot all the way!! Lots of sore heads and piecing together the night the next morning!! I think we just chilled out that day watching movies and crashing out of the sofa. I thoroughly enjoyed my 4 nights between moving out the hostel and into my new place. I hadn’t laughed so much in a long time!! My stomach was aching with the giggles!! I need to sus out how to sort out the pictures on the blog and I’ll set some up for you to see!!

Well Tuesday came and Laurens came round to pick me up from Victoria’s, we got up to the Motel and unpacked our stuff, it was great to hang up clothes and put them in drawers and not have to deal with trying to find them in a cage under the bed!! Richard showed us around and gave us some of the ropes. He left at 5 so all we had to do was take the phone into the living room and listen out for the bell incase anyone wanted a room. Locked the place up at 9pm and ended up having an early night. I have a king size bed with an electric blanket, which is needed as it’s 0 degrees at night and there is no heating in the back rooms!! There is a wicked log fire in the living room so it’s pretty sweet!

We both got up early in the morning and Andrea gave us a low down on the job too.
After that I headed off to Kai for a catch up with my friends and a coffee. I’ve pretty much done that every day, Kai is fantastic, there’s always someone you know there. It’s the hub of Wanaka!! It’s a 10-15 minute walk from where I live to downtown Wanaka and the scenery is stunning all the way. I was walking home listening to my music and just burst into tears at how beautiful the place was. The lake was still, sun was shining down although it was around 5 deg and the mountains that rose up from the lake are huge and snow capped. It’s such a wonderful place and I can’t believe how lucky I am. I must have done something good in my life and I’m being repaid for it!!

Today I got up for 8.30am to unlock reception and switch everything on and once the owners came in I left them to it and went for a shower, I left Laurens lying in his bed. We can just take it in turns to open up and get every other day as a lie in. I headed out at 11 to meet Rachel and Melissa for a coffee at Kai, shock, I’m just about moving in there haha.

Just as we got our coffee Patrick texted to ask if we fancied heading out with him and Alex on his boat out on Lake Wanaka, did I need to think twice, the word wake boarding was also mentioned so I got really excited!! We went to Melissa’s to wait to be picked up, I wanted to sit in the boat that was on tow but they wouldn’t let me haha!!

We got to an empty park of the lake and they got the boat in, Melissa and I changed into our wetsuits and I began to think, what the hell am I doing, never wake boarded before and it was around 8 degrees and snowy mountains all around us. The four of us had an absolute hoot! Patrick dislocated his shoulder a couple of weeks ago from wake boarding so he stuck to riding the boat! Alex went first, he knows his stuff and was enjoying it. Melissa went in next, she had done it a couple of times before but years ago!! She was fantastic though! My turn next, I had to get them to push me in as I didn’t fancy flinging myself in the cold water!! This was my first time, Alex was a great coach and explained everything well, Patrick was shit hot at being the captain and Melissa was screaming plenty of encouragement and waving the camera at me!! Oh dear!!

When we were ready we had to shout ‘HIT IT’ off we went and off I went haha, didn’t even manage to stand up. Back for round two, I managed to get up but didn’t have the force to straighten up so I was butt surfing haha then fell in!! Next time I got up and stayed on for a good wee while and then again woowoo. Every time I got bits of extra advice and it slotted into place!! By this time though my hands were frozen and I could barely hold onto the rope!! I hopped back in the boat and let Alex go play again, he made it look far too easy!! The lake was perfect for it, totally still and the back drop was just snow capped mountains all round. What a bloody fantastic if not my best day on my travels yet! I love trying out new stuff and to do it with such fab people made it even better!! Once we had thawed out we headed back to Alex’s pad and we all jumped in the hot tub, it was a cloudless night and it got dark, all the stars came out and it was just stunning!! Eventually made it home, threw a pizza in the oven as i couldn’t be arsed cooking!! I’ve been chilling out watching TV and DVD’s ever since and that’s my blog up to date!!

So far so good, it just keeps getting better and better here!! I’ve met some fantastic friends and we’re just having a scream!!

Until the next update....Have fun!! Hopefully if I've managed to work things right you should see a slide show below!! Just some latest random pics from Wanaka!!