Winter Festival
by Adam & Lara on 07/28/10
Queenstown has the largest Winter Festival in the Southern Hemisphere. For us it meant we could hear an MC and techno music every evening for 2 weeks. But on the positive side we had all sorts of cool shit like this going on down the street from our cabin:
No big deal, just scaffolding setup in the middle of a park with a bunch of snowboarders doing rail stunts on it.
Lara actually got the opportunity to volunteer at the Winter Festival. "Volunteering" is when you do work for $0/hour. She did some amazing things - such as setting up road barriers, making photocopies and most importantly checking in contestants to the dog barking competition. She made the World a better place. And at the end of the festival all of the volunteers had a party at the casino with free drinks all night. Adam, who did not volunteer, somehow got in anyway.
Adam also got to participate in the festival as a contestant in the Splash-n-Dash. This event involved jumping off a boat in the middle of the bay, swimming to shore, and then running up the beach to a finish line where the swimmers could relax and let their testicles re-descend.
