I made French toast for breakfast myself today. I went to bed hungry yesterday night and woke up hungry. K was supposed to make the French toast for me, but I ended up doing it myself while he watched “Iron Man” with EK, and that pissed me off totally. I started to imagine things, and visualized how this is going to repeat itself when I am under confinement. I would tell K I am hungry, and he would ignore me and continue watching whatever's good on TV instead of attending to my needs. Out of spite, I didn't make any toast for him, and didn't acknowledge his presence thereafter.
After breakfast, we headed to the post office to send back all the ski wear and the car steering wheel lock (together with a Thank You card) we had borrowed from Tony's family in Auckland. After the whole blizzard experience and tiring first timer lessons yesterday, we all figured we won't be doing any snow sports for some time.. = )
We headed to Puzzling World after that and spent the next hour or so exploring the weird puzzles and illusions there. It's actually a pretty interesting place and we took quite a lot of pictures. There are different rooms with different themes, like the Hologram room, a room full of famous people's faces that seem to follow you everywhere you walked, a room that can make you look like a giant and a midget, and a room that throws you out of balance completely. The last room was very unique, but K and I felt so giddy inside that room that we got out as soon as we could.
K and I trying to balance the leaning tower of Wanaka..
K's the giant while I'm the dwarf
Now it's the other way round.. = )
This was taken in the room that threw us out of balance..
Me with Mother Theresa. At a certain angle, her face pops out and appears convex. When you walk from side to side, it changes and becomes concave..
Amongst all the photo taking and exploring, I kinda became less pissed off with K. He didn't seem to realize I was angry with him, and kissed me couple of times, so I guessed that helped..
= ) When we had some alone time, I told K about my unhappiness over breakfast, and he had a very good explanation, so we were fine after that..
We left Puzzling World after exploring all the rooms, and decided to head off for lunch before going back again to try out their Giant Maze. Lunch was chicken parmigiana, beef lasagna and battered fish & chips at a restaurant called The Reef. Everything was average except the beef lasagna, which tasted worse than those frozen ones they sell in the supermarket.
The 4 of us went back to the Giant Maze after lunch, and had a Maze Challenge to see which couple finds all the 4 colored towers and get out of the maze first. We spent nearly 1 hour in the 1.5km (think we covered 3km at least!) confusing maze walking on uneven ground and climbing staircases, and that got us all totally tired out after that. K and I lost to EK and S, and our forfeit was to clean the car. = ( I actually blamed K cause we lost some valuable time when we were on one of the towers and he offered to take pictures for this Ang Moh family even though they didn't ask. Being the competitive person I am, I was really disappointed that we didn't win. But it was all still good fun. = )
Me at some point in the extremely confusing maze
We were the first to reach the finishing point, but still lost cause we only found 1 out of 4 towers!
K and I taking a dump roman style.. = )
By the time we finished, it was almost 4pm. We decided to check out this place called “Have a Shot”, where EK and S did the rifle range, while K went clay bird shooting, which is actually more difficult than it seemed..
K and I after 30 shots at claybirds
After that, we headed to the supermarket as usual, and got ingredients for dinner. I did fried rice with chicken, egg and mushrooms, while EK and S did instant spicy noodles, and stir fry vegetables. And K pan fried crumbed fish fillets. My fried rice turned out terrible, totally unlike what I had cooked for K before at the Hastings motel. It was too salty. So sad!! I kinda give up trying to rescue my fried rice, so K ended up re-frying the rice for me. Sigh.... I think I am losing my ability to cook. Cause my French toast tasted bland as well this morning. = (
Tomorrow we will check out of our motel and leave Wanaka. Still not sure where we are heading. The plan is to go to Dunedin, then Te Anau / Queenstown before heading to Milford Sound. But Jeremy told us yesterday night that Milford Sound has been closed due to an avalanche, so maybe we won't be able to go after all. We intend to go and check the conditions at Milford Sound tomorrow morning before deciding where to go next. Really hope we can still continue as planned cause I would REALLY like to go to Milford Sound, after hearing so many good stuff about it from others! My sister actually told me that I MUST go there before I come back to Singapore.. haha.. Keeping my fingers crossed for good weather this week and next!
K and EK are still playing computer games beside me now. Think S went to bed already, and I too, am getting sleepy. These 2 boys have been playing this battle strategy game called “Quake” (something like Counter Strike) for the few nights. Think they are reliving their poly days.. = )
After breakfast, we headed to the post office to send back all the ski wear and the car steering wheel lock (together with a Thank You card) we had borrowed from Tony's family in Auckland. After the whole blizzard experience and tiring first timer lessons yesterday, we all figured we won't be doing any snow sports for some time.. = )
We headed to Puzzling World after that and spent the next hour or so exploring the weird puzzles and illusions there. It's actually a pretty interesting place and we took quite a lot of pictures. There are different rooms with different themes, like the Hologram room, a room full of famous people's faces that seem to follow you everywhere you walked, a room that can make you look like a giant and a midget, and a room that throws you out of balance completely. The last room was very unique, but K and I felt so giddy inside that room that we got out as soon as we could.
K and I trying to balance the leaning tower of Wanaka..
K's the giant while I'm the dwarf
Now it's the other way round.. = )
This was taken in the room that threw us out of balance..
Me with Mother Theresa. At a certain angle, her face pops out and appears convex. When you walk from side to side, it changes and becomes concave.. Amongst all the photo taking and exploring, I kinda became less pissed off with K. He didn't seem to realize I was angry with him, and kissed me couple of times, so I guessed that helped..
= ) When we had some alone time, I told K about my unhappiness over breakfast, and he had a very good explanation, so we were fine after that..
We left Puzzling World after exploring all the rooms, and decided to head off for lunch before going back again to try out their Giant Maze. Lunch was chicken parmigiana, beef lasagna and battered fish & chips at a restaurant called The Reef. Everything was average except the beef lasagna, which tasted worse than those frozen ones they sell in the supermarket.
The 4 of us went back to the Giant Maze after lunch, and had a Maze Challenge to see which couple finds all the 4 colored towers and get out of the maze first. We spent nearly 1 hour in the 1.5km (think we covered 3km at least!) confusing maze walking on uneven ground and climbing staircases, and that got us all totally tired out after that. K and I lost to EK and S, and our forfeit was to clean the car. = ( I actually blamed K cause we lost some valuable time when we were on one of the towers and he offered to take pictures for this Ang Moh family even though they didn't ask. Being the competitive person I am, I was really disappointed that we didn't win. But it was all still good fun. = )
Me at some point in the extremely confusing maze
We were the first to reach the finishing point, but still lost cause we only found 1 out of 4 towers!
K and I taking a dump roman style.. = )By the time we finished, it was almost 4pm. We decided to check out this place called “Have a Shot”, where EK and S did the rifle range, while K went clay bird shooting, which is actually more difficult than it seemed..
K and I after 30 shots at claybirdsAfter that, we headed to the supermarket as usual, and got ingredients for dinner. I did fried rice with chicken, egg and mushrooms, while EK and S did instant spicy noodles, and stir fry vegetables. And K pan fried crumbed fish fillets. My fried rice turned out terrible, totally unlike what I had cooked for K before at the Hastings motel. It was too salty. So sad!! I kinda give up trying to rescue my fried rice, so K ended up re-frying the rice for me. Sigh.... I think I am losing my ability to cook. Cause my French toast tasted bland as well this morning. = (
Tomorrow we will check out of our motel and leave Wanaka. Still not sure where we are heading. The plan is to go to Dunedin, then Te Anau / Queenstown before heading to Milford Sound. But Jeremy told us yesterday night that Milford Sound has been closed due to an avalanche, so maybe we won't be able to go after all. We intend to go and check the conditions at Milford Sound tomorrow morning before deciding where to go next. Really hope we can still continue as planned cause I would REALLY like to go to Milford Sound, after hearing so many good stuff about it from others! My sister actually told me that I MUST go there before I come back to Singapore.. haha.. Keeping my fingers crossed for good weather this week and next!
K and EK are still playing computer games beside me now. Think S went to bed already, and I too, am getting sleepy. These 2 boys have been playing this battle strategy game called “Quake” (something like Counter Strike) for the few nights. Think they are reliving their poly days.. = )
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