From South to North for New Year's
After a lovely New Year's Eve sleep, we started packing to make the flight from Queenstown to Auckland. Our AirBnB host was super nice about letting us leave our bags in the apartment until we left, so we were free to search out breakfast along the lake. We had heard good things about the Public Kitchen and Bar , and the idea of starting the new year off basking in the sun was ideal. The service was superb and brekkie was wonderful: chicken and waffles, pancakes, thai curry (for our non-breakfast breakfaster), several Americanos, yum! Note Penn's new hat. Somehow, somewhere, he lost his much-beloved Mammoth Caves hat, so we found this one for about $11 US. Same color and theme (parks). To whomever found the MC hat, I hope you enjoy it as much as he did. Fluffy Queenstown clouds. We had made great use of the NZ Super Shuttle service while traveling around the islands. It's basically a passenger van with a hitc...