Toes in the. . . rocks?

Caught the shuttle to Queenstown at 8am this morning and spent all morning walking around and seeing the city. Had an amazing strawberry tart at a cafe with sparkling cranberry lime juice (tasted a lot like a limeade from sonic, but more expensive).

I then sat on the beach by the lake for a while soaking up the sun rays (with sunscreen on) and watching the seagulls, ducks and boats. The beach is really more just rocks that are small but there was plenty of space to lay out a towell and not feel like you were on top of other sun bathers like some beaches in Florida. The sun is more dangerous here since New Zealand has far less polution to suck up the UV rays as well as there being a thinner ozone layer. Sunscreen is REALLY expensive though. Got a bottle of Hawaiian Tropic for $26. It better last me the whole time I'm here.

All the interns in the program have been trying to get weekends put together for traveling. The only thing that has been set so far is that I am going to Dunedin in March, by bus. It is about a 3 1/2 hour bus ride, and the bus tickets were super cheap. Other cities I am trying to get to are Christchurch, Wellington and Nadi (Fiji). We'll see how far the budget gets me :-)