Sunday 12 April 2009 (Easter Sunday)

We were up at 6 a.m. and after an early breakfast Saboohi and I paid a final visit to the Minnehaha Walk. The weather was damp and grey for most of the morning as we drove down to the coast, through the Haast region, stopping off at Thunder Creek Falls, Makarora (where we visited a fruit farm) and Lake Wanaka on the way. Just before we reached our destination for the next 2 nights, Queenstown, Saboohi and I along with 7 other members of the tour were dropped off at the Shotover River Canyon for our Jet Boat ride. This was a truly exhilarating ride, weaving our way, at speed, through the rocky canyon. The river was shallow and fast flowing and at times we felt as though the boat was going to slam into jagged rocks. It was well worth the $109 charge. Later this evening Saboohi fulfilled one of her lifetime wishes to complete a bungy jump! Queenstown is the birthplace of bungy jumping so it was fitting that her first jump should be here. We took the gondola ride up to the Sky Swing Deck overlooking the town. It was getting dark and although fully booked already Saboohi managed to get herself a jump for that evening. I don’t think Saboohi had fully appreciated just how scary this was going to be before she actually stood up there on the ledge waiting to jump. At one point she actually thought she would not be able to jump. It took all her courage to step over the edge but she did it! What a sense of achievement - she said that it was the scariest thing she had ever done and I can believe it!