Kelsey's Travels

Saturday, March 3, 2018: Sad day :( I always have mixed feelings when it's time to go home. I'm a homebody but I love travelling to see new places. I'm sad about leaving the warm weather for the snow storm that is normally happening when it's time for me to return. I'm happy about seeing my kitties and sleeping in my own bed. I'm sad about leaving the people I'm there to see or who I've been travelling with. I'm happy to be back in the comfort of my own home. So many mixed feelings. Our flight wasn't until 8PM so we had some time to go shopping on Queen St. For a small city they have awesome shops on their downtown strip and it feels like shopping in a much larger city. I ended up only buying a tank from Cotton On and a few souvenirs from the souvenir shops. Nisha got some sweet Oakleys to become part of the shiny blue sunglass crew. Bar in the Auckland airport - I thought it looked pretty cool. The excruciatingly lo...

Saturday, February 24, 2018: Our last day in Queenstown started with breakfast at Joe's Garage.They had fun names for their menu items and the food was pretty good. The doggo behind Nisha was enjoying breakfast as well and was getting pets from the people sitting at the table beside them. There was a farmer's market so we took a walk through. These were all soaps! They were so beautiful. The woman who made these used to be a baker if you can't tell haha. Sign at the Queenstown Airport. Mountains from the plane, just leaving Queenstown. I have thalassophobia (fear of bodies of water) so my coworker wanted a picture of me taking a picture of the ocean on the plane. We one'd up him by getting a picture of Tarun taking a picture of me taking a picture of the ocean. (yes I know it's a weird phobia, I can't explain it but I get this weird feeling when I see pictures of the ocean. But only in satellite view. ) The girls ...

Friday, February 23: Big things happened this day. Tarun and Nisha did the Nevis Swing and we conquered Roys Peak. We grabbed a quick breakfast from this lovely cafe. Coffee was hot and delicious and the croissant was soooooooooo yum. I still dream about it. 😍😍 Before the plunge! They're so photogenic.. even moments before being swung down a 300m arc. Quite the death grip They survived to tell the tale. We stopped for a photo shoot on the way to Roys Peak 😊 And so starts the climb to Roys Peak. It's located in Wanaka which is just over an hour drive from Queenstown. We ended up getting here quite late. There was a traffic jam due to construction that held us back about an hour. Nisha and I wanted to turn around after half an hour but Tarun was persistent that it would move soon. And it did... for about half a km until it halted again for 15 minutes. We started at 3:25PM and it's noted to be a 5-6 hour hike on...