Wanaka....to Queenstown

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After we sleep in a bit and see that the weather is not the greatest we decide to move on to Queenstown..the adventure capital of New Zealand.  The weather did not improve along the way, but some beautiful lakes along the way.
We drove on and as we drove I thought of my dad because of the vineyard after vineyard, a wine drinkers dream in New Zealand and the road we took was littered with a million.   It is right near the area where all the wine tours run and the winery map if you wanted to follow them through the country.  We had a hard time deciding when and which one there were too many and Ray and I are not the best wine critics.  Then we saw it, Cheesery and Wine Cave Winery.  That caught our attention, we love cheese and wine without something to add to it is just not our way of drinking.  The place was beautiful and the winery and cheesery were two seperate building and owners, so we checked out the cheese first, they laid out samples everywhere of chutney, pestos, and cheese with crackers.  After a few tastes we were sold, I mean it was lunch time so we should eat anyways right?   We decided to walk over to the winery to sample some wines which were just ok, compared to the last place we tried which most of the wines were quite good.   So we trucked it back over to the Cheesery and purchased a platter of cheese,pesto,bread,crackers,jam and began our taste overload moment.   It was amazing the flavours we were in taste bud heaven.  After we left full bellies of cheese we drove onto Queenstown and knew we were close when we saw the bungy jumping over the gorge along the road.
Once we got to Queenstown we drove to the campervan site and walked down to the main town.  The weather starting to come in again and we just walked around, checked out the interenet and no one was on skype so we shopped a bit for souvenirs.  The town is very cute, but really busy too.  When we got back to the campervan site lowe and behold it started to piss down rain again and we ended up sitting around again.  It rained all night and part of the morning. So we decided to go indoor mini golfing.  They did a really good job of setting it up, and we had some fun, oh and I beat Ray finally at something thanks to my dad taking me golfing when I was younger. ahhahhaha!
We watched the weather and it was said to snow/rain in the afternoon so we treated ourselves to some massages and float  time capsle thing.  The float capsule was wierd, half an hour in there is suppose to be like 2 hours rem sleep but I didn't really notice.  We then set up for our massages, relaxed and got rubbed.  It felt good especially since we have been living out of a cramped van for the last 30ish days.