Waking up in an actual bed today, warm and cozy and not having to go outside for the bathroom, or even put my shoes on, was fantastic. Realizing it was sunny outside was the icing on the cake or the cherry on the sundae or whatever you want to call it.
I showered and decided to take a walk into town. Just the view from outside the hostel was incredible. I actually got warm on my walk! After exploring for a bit and deciding that Lake Wanaka is gorgeous when it's not all grey and dreary out I grabbed a cappuccino (much better than my usual morning instant coffee and coffeemate) and walked back to the hostel.
And there I sat while Evan snowboarded up in the mountains somewhere. On a couch, looking out of a huge window over the gorgeous lake, no shoes, no layers (according to Susan, Italian Vogue says wearing everything you own at once is out this season...sorry IV, it's fucking freezing out there) and plenty of wifi.
I savored my cappuccino, I spent all my wifi credit on a lengthy call to Preston working the nightshift in Prague, I sewed a hole in 1 of my 2 pairs of pants, and I enjoyed a lovely inside day. I even had live accordion music (that part I didn't really love but a young french teenager was courting a girl with his skills and I didn't have the heart to tell him to stfu).
Evan apparently had a great day snowboarding, picked up 1 hitchhiker and hitched his own way up and down the mountain. We grabbed a late lunch after he came back, had a couple beers (my beer had "bohemian tendencies," according to my parents, so do I) and hit up another random movie, "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World."
I drove the campervan on the OTHER side of the road for the 1st time, we played some battleship, and now we're killing a 6pack of lager before we decide whether we should have Mexican or Japanese for dinner.
AND, the best news, we added a 3rd night here. That's 3 nights in a warm bed without mid-night outdoor bathroom adventures. Yessssss! Word on the lake is that the sun may come out tomorrow again.
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