About halfway there, we stopped at Haas to get some lunch. You'd expect Haas to be a town around the size of the glaciers, but it was actually smaller. There was only 1 restaurant by the edge of town. It was called Antler Lodge (or something to that effect). Inside all the taps were made of antlers.
They also had antlers all over the tops of their bar area.
After Haas, we drove along two large lakes for a long time.
When we finally reached Wanaka, we headed straight to the Rippon winery. Their winery had the most gorgeous views of Lake Wanaka. Here's the view from their cellar door.
This winery would be a great place to work. Look at the background that you'd get to stare at when you're dilly dallying.
As the sun sets, it would illuminate the mountains in the background.
The next morning, David, Dad and I went on a super long mountain biking ride along the water. It was a lot of fun and a lot of hard work. All of our bums were sore from the bike seat for the next couple of days! After lunch, we went to visit Puzzling World.
The first thing we visited was the illusion rooms. The room that I'm currently in has all these concave faces that look as if they are constantly looking at you and sticking out of the wall.
We also went into this room, where the floor was sloped 15 degrees. It was hard to walk around, but there were some fun illusions. Look at how David was able to stand tilting forwards so easily.
We thought this room was fun since it made me look like I was a giant compared to David.
We had to get the reverse photo as well to prove that I actually have not grown THAT big while I've been here. =) The cool thing about the room was that they had a video delay so that after you left the room, you could see yourselves in the room. In case you didn't have some parents sitting at the window waiting to capture your photos.
After the illusion rooms, we headed into the life-size maze. This was a lot of fun. It reminded me of Amazing Race a bit. We split up and decided to try and race through the maze. You had to find all 4 corners of the maze before heading to the exit point.
David and I ended up finishing relatively quickly and were trying to help Mom and Dad through the maze. Eventually they gave up and came out of the emergency exit.
Even the bathrooms were fun to play in.
Right before we left, I almost sat on the tower! Ouch!
After our fun time in Wanaka, we were heading to Queenstown, which was our final town in New Zealand.
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