One more point about the point about the bathrooms!!! Conservation is big in New Zealand and so all the toilets have the choice of two types of flushes....one for number one and the other for number two!!! I haven't figured out which is which!!! Also we saw lots of wind turbines on the tops of the mountains on the road to Queestown yesterday.
We started this morning with a walk around the gardens and huge pond at their local park. People here are fanatical about their gardens...hotels, homes, city parks....all gorgeous flowers and different.
Today we were on the water again and took an old coal-powered steam ship to the other side of the lake....did I mention our hotel room is right in front of the lake with the mountains behind it!!
There we landed at the Walter Peak sheep station where we saw a demonstration of sheep sheering as well as sheep herding by their border collie. Of course, we had lunch there right by the lake with phenominal gardens again. They even had a rose there with a coppery shade named "Just Joey"...how cool!
Later I came back and rented a bike and pedaled around the city and lake. While pedaling, I saw some young people in the park playing frisbee golf...they had 18 holes set up...and, of course, being the shy person I am, went right up to them and asked them how it is played. And they showed me and let me join them for awhile...cool again!!
This is a city of known for its extreme sports and filming production (like Lord of the Rings). So for dinner we took a gondola up to the top of the mountain and had dinner there. We had the chance to either take the gondola back, paraglide down or luge down (on a roller wheel type sled as there is no snow now) I was thinking about taking the luge down, but by the time we finished dinner...they had closed it down. I guess I will just have to come back some time again!!!
Well, that is all the news I have for now...heard Avatar was not the big winner at the Oscars...I have not turned on the tv since I left. Hope all is well with everyone.
Take care and stay safe and healthy.
Love,
Gloria
We started this morning with a walk around the gardens and huge pond at their local park. People here are fanatical about their gardens...hotels, homes, city parks....all gorgeous flowers and different.
Today we were on the water again and took an old coal-powered steam ship to the other side of the lake....did I mention our hotel room is right in front of the lake with the mountains behind it!!
There we landed at the Walter Peak sheep station where we saw a demonstration of sheep sheering as well as sheep herding by their border collie. Of course, we had lunch there right by the lake with phenominal gardens again. They even had a rose there with a coppery shade named "Just Joey"...how cool!
Later I came back and rented a bike and pedaled around the city and lake. While pedaling, I saw some young people in the park playing frisbee golf...they had 18 holes set up...and, of course, being the shy person I am, went right up to them and asked them how it is played. And they showed me and let me join them for awhile...cool again!!
This is a city of known for its extreme sports and filming production (like Lord of the Rings). So for dinner we took a gondola up to the top of the mountain and had dinner there. We had the chance to either take the gondola back, paraglide down or luge down (on a roller wheel type sled as there is no snow now) I was thinking about taking the luge down, but by the time we finished dinner...they had closed it down. I guess I will just have to come back some time again!!!
Well, that is all the news I have for now...heard Avatar was not the big winner at the Oscars...I have not turned on the tv since I left. Hope all is well with everyone.
Take care and stay safe and healthy.
Love,
Gloria
Lucy said they have those types of toilets on campus in the newer buildings at UT! Love all your pictures...looks beautiful. Glad you have conquered your fear of strangers and talking to people you don't know!! HA!
ReplyDeletePictures are spectacular, Glor... just an FYI, I got your email & then a similar email the next day from a friend who uses blogspot too. not sure if there's a connection???
ReplyDeleteYour pictures alone are much more entertaining than any tv show I've ever watched, so I wouldn't worry too much about missing the latest Biggest Loser :o) It sounds like you are having a wonderful time and enjoying the beautiful weather! We missed you at the GaGa party; thanks for the birthday wishes!! Enjoy yourself and please continue sending this lovely weather our way.
ReplyDeleteI love love love learning all about your journey Gloria! The scenery is beautiful and the blue skies are gorgeous! Continue to have a great time and relay all of your experiences via your blog. I guess you are the blog expert!! Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteHey Glor,
ReplyDeleteDid some fact finding on Swirl direction of toilets....
It is a commonly held misconception that when flushed, the water in a toilet bowl swirls one way if the toilet is north of the equator and the other way if south of the equator, due to the Coriolis effect – usually, counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. In reality, the direction that the water takes is much more determined by the direction that the bowl's rim jets are pointed, and it can be made to flush in either direction in either hemisphere by simply redirecting the rim jets during manufacture. On the scale of bathtubs and toilets, the Coriolis effect is too weak to be observed except under laboratory conditions.
I am now a world expert on toilet flushing.....
Freddy