Jan
5
R&R
Filed Under Australia/New Zealand 2009/10
Queenstown, New Zealand
January 5, 2010
5:30pm
This afternoon, Joanne and I have taken it easy. After our tour, we went into town for some lunch at the highly recommended Fergburger, well known for, you guessed it, its burgers. The wait can be long, but our order was ready in 15 minutes. The burgers are huge, so we split one and also enjoyed an order of fries. We wondered how many orders this place fills each day; when we walked in, order #90 was being called, and when we left they had circled from 99 back to 1 and up to #40. That’s a lot of flipping!
After stuffing ourselves, we walked around and peeked in a few of the shops before heading back to our room. We both read and took naps. I’ve been sneezing a lot and blowing my nose the past couple of days and thought was just allergies. This afternoon, I acquired the chills so I went to a nearby pharmacy and picked up some Sudafed. I would have thought that N.Z. carries the same meds that the U.S. does, but all of the packaging and brand names were foreign to me. I didn’t even see Tylenol. Hopefully I’m not coming down with something.
By the way, I need to correct a couple of things. First of all, I incorrectly stated that the Sydney to Hobart sailboat race ends in New Zealand. Hobart is actually the capital of Tasmania which is the island state of Australia off of the south-eastern coast. Second, thanks to a comment left by a friend, the Target stores I’ve seen around Australia are not owned by Target Corp. in the U.S. It’s actually a knock-off by some Australian company that uses our dear own Target’s marketing and such, but U.S. Target can’t sue because it doesn’t own any stores in OZ. How crazy is that?!
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