Repeat the sentence in quotations out loud. Hint- where you see double ‘ee’s, draw them out like ‘eeeee’. Say this out loud and slowly. “The weether ees cool and ryni theese morning, but eet will be beeter by eleeveen and cleah by seeveen.” If your office mates are looking at you strangely, it is not only that you have been busted for using the company’s computer for personal goofing around, but because you sound just like a Kiwi. Congratulations!
During the night, we woke up to heavy rain running down the gutters. We are scheduled to fly over the mountain to Milford Sound this morning in a light aircraft. The tour operator says they will make a decision on whether they will fly at 9 a.m. Mike has looked out the window and already made his decision. Light rain, low hanging cloud bases and valley fog in mountainous terrain that looks like news footage from Afghanistan. No aviating for Mike today. Bummer.
On to plan B. Susan quickly arranged a trip to the wineries near Q-town. In our rain gear we join up with 12 other un-happy campers and make the best of our first bad weather day since we began the trip. Two vineyards, a fabulous lunch and a cheesery (yes that is so a word… see photo) later we are in better spirits.
We make friends with our bus mates and get better acquainted. Hard to be grumpy when you are sampling wine and cheese and mingling with like minded people.
Back to our super trendy hotel. It is still pouring rain. We try to read, but end up asleep with the books on our chests. We do rally in time for the nightly wine reception and meet new people from Australia and the Czech Republic. They shut down the lobby party at 7:30, so we are forced to venture out in the drizzle. We trudge down to Winnie’s and eat pizza with the locals and watch cricket on the telly.
Made the best of a rainy day in the adventure capital of the world.
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