Queenstown Escape

Jet Boating the Dart River. Absolutely Awesome!!!
http://www.dartriver.co.nz/dartriver/WildernessSafari/

T.S.S. Earnslaw: We took a night time cruise over to Walter Peak Station (in the background) where we had dinner and a "sheep show".
http://www.realjourneys.co.nz/Main/TSSEarnslaw_WP/

Richard with Lake Wakatipu in the background.
http://www.queenstown.nz.com/lake-wakatipu.aspx

Karen with Queenstown in the distance.
www.karensimpson.com
(ha ha, made you look)

Jet boat on the Shotover River
http://www.shotoverjet.co.nz/


View from Coronet Peak
(you can see Sam Neill's house in the distance if you look really hard and Shania Twain's sheep station is out there somewhere.)
http://www.experiencequeenstown.co.nz/the-experience/snow/skifields/coronet-peak/

Sappy picture of me in front of some more amazing mountains that I
can't name for the life of me.

Cuddly Valentines freezing their asses off just before getting
on the Dart River jet boat.

Richard and I celebrated our 10th anniversary (can it really be 10 years already?!) by taking four days off and going to Queenstown. Queenstown is the most amazing tourist mecca that I think I have ever been to. It's not only set in a beautiful place, it's a tourist machine as far as the number and variety of activities that you can participate in. I've been complaining for the past 11 years that Richard never took me there when we lived in New Zealand before so I think he took me as much to shut me up as to celebrate our 10 years of marriage. No matter the reason, we had a blast. I think we did all of the "must do" things in Queenstown (all of the must do things if you are not an adrenaline junkie that is-which I am to some degree but never mind). We even managed to have the best meal that I have had since we moved back to New Zealand. I'll let the photos do the rest of the talking.