After such an adrenalin rush, it was time to relax a bit.  We got to our hotel in Queenstown and Todd immediately turned on the TV to see if there was any cricket on.  There wasn’t, but they were showing the Sunday night American football game (live Monday afternoon in Queenstown!), featuring Todd’s star fantasy football player, Brett Favre.  True there was great scenery to be taken in, but can that compare to Brett Favre?  I don’t think so.

After the game, we decided that we still needed a bit more excitement to round out the day.  So we took the gondola up to the top of the mountain overlooking the town.  They have yet another bungy jump there and we…well, no we didn’t bungy jump again.  However, there is also a luge run!  It wasn’t really a luge, but a less intense imitation – you sit up on a plastic sled and race downhill through a twisting and turning course.  It was not quite as intense as bungy jumping or jet boating (actually it felt a lot like driving on New Zealand roads), but it was a nice way to round out our day of thrills in the water, through the air, and on the ground.

The next day, our last full day in New Zealand, we awoke to pouring rain, the first really rainy day of the trip (which is remarkably lucky from what I hear).  So we went shopping.  In Christchurch, we had come across some interesting Maori art designs that we thought would make good souvenirs.  They were everywhere there, so we thought we’d wait and just get them later in the trip.  In Queenstown, no stores had them and no one even seemed to understand what we were talking about.  Finally, after walking all over town, we found one place that had them.  Of course, the next day the airport duty-free shops that had them all over the place!