Day 13 Sunday (14/08/2011)

We woke up to look at a couple of clouds, some blue sky.  Cup of tea and breaky in bed while the clouds and breeze built up and then FINALLY...... snow flurries!!! (Fine snow).  We lay in bed having good talks together, honest and close.  So relaxing and lovely to be able to slow life down enough to do this.

The day is getting greyer, so Ian booked us in for two more days, as travelling in the weather forecast would be silly and dangerous.  So, basic chores this morning (sewerage dump, water refill, empty grey water) before walking into town to the i place to see if there's any more (gentler) walks we can do.  That's the plan.  Snow flurries all morning.  Hope it gets heavier! hehe

Nope!  It didn't go to plan.  We wandered around in the freezing cold and fun flurries looking in shops for nothing.  Ian finally found a book he liked.  I checked out some wool but too expensive anyway.  We had coffee and muffin at McCafe to get the free wi-fi but it was down!  One coffee was a freebie and we shared a muffin so it only cost us $NZ5 anyway.  We bummed around till lunch-time chatting to the lady at the bookstore for a while.  She was born at Invercargill and said don't bother going there.  Ha.

We chose to have Fergburgers for lunch.  The line-up was long 'as usual'.  These burgers must be good!!  I couldn't make up my mind so I just told Ian to choose two; we'd split them and taste both.  We raced back to the camper to eat them in warmth and comfort.  Our prizes were the Southern Swine and the Little Lamby.  Both were very delicious.  One of the main flavours was a tomato relish which tastes identical to the recipe passed down from my grandmothers and my mum.

We relaxed in the camper for the rest of the day with the snow flurries getting more and more frequent, so by the evening there was a lovely blanket of snow over everything.  Ian read while I did some photo-processing.  Dinner was the remainder of our salmon with caramelised onions, brussel sprouts, and microwave baked potato with brie.  A bit of telly and early to bed to GET WARM!!!!

This is how I stayed warm today.  Besides underwear; a singlet, thermals (top and bottom), three pairs of socks, jeans, a long sleeved shirt, a jumper, a jacket and a wind jacket, ugg boots and a beanie.  Yep, nice and cosy!

Snow flurries starting

The mall, Queenstown

Outside the famous Ferg's.  Look closely, the shop inside is packed with customers.

Inside Ferg's (where all the magic happens)