New Zealand Baby!

We set off at the begining of jan for our 3 week adventure!
We were going to travel around the south island via Kiwi Experience, what  a treat!
So after a short 33 hour flight, we finally arrived in Queenstown, dazed and confused and not quite knowing what meal we were supposed to have due to our jetlag.
We spent a few days in queenstown just to get our barings and before we knew it we had booked a lord of the rings tour (HEHE) and a 134m bungy jump! (The Nevis bungy)
We absolutely fell in love with Queenstown. We loved the atmosphere and the lake, and above all FERG BURGERS! The biggest most amazing burgers we had ever seen. mmmmmm.

We went on the lord of the rings tour for poops and giggles, but actually it turned out to be a really fun day! It was just the two of us on our tour, and we got picked up in a 4x4 by a woman called Julie who was from Australia. She was such a sweetie. She told us all about queenstown, then we set off to various filming sites of the lord of the rings films, telling us all about them! (i also found out that queenstown was the base filming site for the film 'Willow'. shocking) She showed us the mountains where they filmed, the river where they rowed up at the end of the first film before that big battle, the river where smeagol first steals the ring.. and loads more, along with Shania Twains holiday house, and Aragorns favorite cafe to eat in!  Towards the end of the tour she showed us the first A.J. Hacket bungy site. This one was above a river, and you had the option of being dunked in the water head first. She then said to us, that this bungy jump was about 1/3 of the size of the Nevis bungy. Oh goody, we couldnt wait. Laughing at us for having to do this monster bungy the next day, she dropped us back off at our hostel. She was such a babe.

The next day we woke up early. We had booked one of the earliest jumps so we wouldnt have to sit around waiting and thinking about it all day. We had to get a bus to our bungy jump site, then another smaller bus up a windy road. Then we arrived at a building and they went through some safety info with us. Holly had been nervous this whole way, and it was only now that it was starting to hit us. We got into our sexy harness and walked outside. There was a cabel car, and you had to get a carriage out to the platform which was where we were about to jump out of. It hit me. Looking down all i could see was the edge of the cliff, rocks, rocks and more rocks, then alllll the way down was what looked like a piece of blue string, that was probably a decent sized river. Shit.

A girl who worked there came over to talk to us. "nervous?" she asked us. Nahhhh course we werent, we're hard core baby! She talked us through it, she'd done this jump loads of times and she still got nervous every time she jumped, but she said it was the most amazing feeling. I was buzzing, i couldnt wait, and yet i couldnt even imagine how it was going to feel!!! She said if we wanted to look really good, when we jump we have to do the swan position. This meant, we jump, chest pumped out, head held high, arms back. Yeah man, i was going to do this, and i was going to look fucking awesome.

So we were waiting in that box in the middle of these two cliffs. watching everyone else go first. this made me feel better, they were shitting themselves, but when they came back up they were ecstatic! We waited until they called one of our names, who was going to go first!?
It was me. I was happy with this, i didnt want to see Holly's reaction incase it was a bad one, then have to go after knowing i was probably going to shit myself on the way down. The free fall was about 8 or 9 seconds, thats a long time to fall. At this point i was fine, i was so excited, i was so ready! I sat in their dentist like chair while he strapped me up and talked me through what i had to do. As i sat down the chair jumped, i thought i was going to fall out of this stupid box, and then i was nervous. He went on to say he would count to 3, i would jump, i would fall, after the 2nd or 3rd bounce i would lean upwards and yank out this strap from the harness and i would come upright again and they would pull me up.
Wait, what? My mind was blank, i hadnt taken in a thing he had said. FUCK. WHAT. im going now??? OOHH shit. I tried to get up, tried to walk towards the edge of this stupid box, but you try walking when your feet are tied together, its not easy. I could hear Holly giggling at my penguin like waddling. Shit. There was the edge. Try not to fall now. Oh my god. That is a long way down. "Are you ready?" he said.. i heard a feeble little voice say no, but oh wait, that was me! he started to count down from 3. "IM NOT READY" i blerted. "Am i going to have to push you?" he said. "yes please" i said, but oh no, he wasnt going to do that was he. Ohhhh my god im about to jump out of a fucking box. ohhhh myyy goooodd. He counted down from 3 again... 3... 2... 1.. I DID IT! did i jump. or did i just fall out of that box. i dont care i did it. oh my god im falling! SHIT! SHIT! IM NOT STOPPING! IM GOING TO DIE! SOMETHING WENT WRONG! OH FUCK THIS IS THE SCARIEST THING IVE EVER DONE! IM NOT STOPPING! WHERE IS THE BOUNCE! WHAT DID HE SAY AGAIN? OH GOD WHAT DID HE SAY?? hmm i really want a pint. and a burger... OH MY GOD IM GOING TO.... bounce. YES. IM ALIVE. OH MY GOD. THAT WAS AMAZING... bounce.. FUCKING HELL THAT WAS FUCKING AMAZING.. bounce.. oh wait.. wasnt i supposed to do something now... i tried to yank this strap from the harness around my ankles.. oh it wont come out! oh god!!! Then i felt myself fall. Yet again i thought i was going to die, then when i oppened my eyes i was upright, and was slowly being pulled back up to the cable car. I looked at my surroundings. It was amazing. The best thing i had ever seen. And it was just me, hanging there, in the middle of all of it. It felt like forever, but then it felt like no time at all, it had all happened so quickly, and i wanted another go! AGAIN AGAIN! I got to the top stuttering like a fool, shaking. "that was amaazing ohmygod OHmyGOD that was AMAZING" was all i managed to get out of my mouth.
Then it was Hollys turn. I couldnt stop smilling. "YOURE GOING TO LOVE IT HOLLY". man i must have been annoying. she sat in the chair, giggling everytime the man said anything, probably taking in just as little as i just had. she then waddled over to the edge. Hey, that is pretty funny to watch... She went to the edge, and she just jumped. What the fuck. Why did she make it look so easy? Goddamnit.

She came back up in no time at all, with the same goofy smile i had on my face! We were buzzing for more! We went back across the cable thing with a quite nice looking guy who worked there, i wanted to pretend i was dead cool but no, i looked like a spaz. all me and holly could properly say was "OMG" and "cant wait for my victory pint".
We got back to the main building to get our stuff back, feeling like we were fucking well cool.
Then the first thing we both did was go on facebook.
Whatevs, we're still mint.
We bought the video of our jumps then got the bus back to Queenstown.
I dont know if it is because of the hour long journey back or because of the run down from the adrenaline, but i was knackered. i was so tired, and my head was banging. And I think holly felt a bit rough too.
We got back to the hostel and i swear to god all i wanted was a nap. So much for being amazing.

We also did the Milford sounds tour while we were there. We got up early, once again, and went on facebook to check our emails from our boyfriends and family and friends. I cant remember why now but something upset me, i probably didnt have a reply from the boyf, so i was all teary and holly was trying to chear me up, then the bus was there! ahhhh quick, regain all self control!!!
Then we went on probably one of the most beautiful bus journeys ever! it took maybe 2 hours to get to the boat dock? maybe 3 with stops on the way to look at beautiful waterfalls and a walk through a rainforest. Then we finally got there and went on a boat ride, complete with food, YAY!
It wasnt a very sunny day, infact it was really quite clowdy, but we were told that milford sounds looks most beautiful on the most miserable of days. When it rains, the sounds shine, and they did! The waterfalls were full and playfull, seals were everywhere, it was stunning! We went up to the top deck to get a better view and to get some happy snaps. What a bad day to wear dresses. We went upstairs and the second we opened the door, BOOM, Hello knickers!!!!! We tackeled the strong wind and our dresses, and crawled our way over to the benches and sat down. oh christ, how would we ever walk back to the door. And oh good, theres a chinese man with a fuck off massive camera. Good times. A guy we met oh the bus was laughing at us, well.. who wasnt.. and took a humorous photo of us both in the wind with our dresses going everywhere, and our hair the state of a yeti. Hilarious.
Later on we stopped at this strange building in the middle of nowhere, and we were one of the few who had tickets to this place, which we didnt even know about but hey ho, off we went! It turned out to be a little fishy museum type thing, and you could go down all the way into this glass room which let you look out into the sea to see the fish that were swimming around, it was awesome!!!
We then got back on the boat, back to the docks, and back on the bus, for a long drive back to our hostel.

The next day we were off to Christchurch!