As much as we loved being around Queenstown and experiencing all of the adventure and adrenaline-filled things there were to do, it was time to move on and the next stop was Wanaka. Wanaka provided breathtaking scenery, mountain lakes, amazing color contrasts, incredible blue skies, and open spaces.
A lake alongside the road near Wanaka.
The view from one of the mountain passes that we drove.
While in Wanaka, we stopped at Puzzling World, which had all kinds of puzzles, optical illusions, and strange things to play with. The kids (and the adults) enjoyed the difficult giant maze (Cody and Ryder were the only ones that stayed to the bitter end and finished out all of the elements). We wandered through all the twisted fun rooms and tricked our senses. It was a great way to spend an afternoon.
An entire area was on a steep angle with the walls and ceilings misaligned to trick your senses. You can see that "up" is the way our heads are pointing.
Miniature Kip in one corner with Giant Emily and Toni in the other.
The girls took the kids to Mexican food while the guys went river boarding back towards Queenstown.
Kip, pretending to use the Roman community toilets.
All of us felt like champions after having done the Nevis Bungy. We all wore our shirts the following day in Wanaka.
We stopped to snap some pictures at one of the lakes in Wanaka. This is one of our favorites with the kids with grandma Toni and grandpa Scott.
Ryder, trying not to fall down the abyss in the bathroom at Puzzling World.
Another bathroom at Puzzling World in Wanaka.
Zander and grandma Toni each working on a puzzle at Puzzling World.
While the guys were river boarding, the girls took the kids to the automobile and machinery museum in Wanaka. Here, the kids got to climb on a real tank.
The kids in an old-fashioned car.
We had to hold up this building to keep it from tipping over at Puzzling World.
The kids playing by the lake in Wanaka.
Another mountain lake alongside the road near Wanaka.
Sawyer's proud of herself for figuring out one of the puzzles.
The guys went river boarding with Extreme Fun River Surfing. It was pretty cold, but they were given thick wet suits with boots and gloves. Once they got in the water and past the initial shock of the cold, it was fun. Basically, river boarding is taking a boogie board down a river through the rapids and trying to do barrel rolls, 360's, and duck-unders.
Extreme Fun River Surfing is the company that took us river boarding.
This is a view from the top of the canyon that we went down.
The canyon had 3 sets of pretty good rapids and we ran the canyon twice. They stopped us at one point and let us do a little cliff jumping, which was fun.
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