Jewels Travel Adventures: August 2006

Friday, August 04, 2006

Clumsy Me!!!

Doctor Ashley

Well, look what a clutz I am!! Here I thought I would get away my whole life with just a broken arm. No such luck. On Saturday, July 29, I was at work and standing by the kitchen doors getting coffee for a table and I had an urge to sneeze. I don't remember what actually happened, just what I was told, that I sneezed and braced myself by putting my hand out on the door. Someone had opened the door and my hand slid in and all I remeber is hearing a crack, pulling it out, showing Katielyn and Steph (one of our supervisors), then Ron (a chef) pulling me downstairs to the staff room, getting me a container of ice water and telling me it was ok to cry. The porter, Wes then took me to the medical center where I was told it was broken. Ahhhhh!!! So the doctor told me that I didn't have to work for six weeks to let it properly heal .But cause I knew I would be so bored, I went and talked to my manager to figure out what I could actualy do. And now I am doing mini bar for the next couple of weeks, which only requires me to use one hand. Wow..things that happen!!! But the good thing is my birthday is coming up on the 8th. Hurray something good!!!

Arrowtown

On July 25th, while Steph was awaiting her birthday, I was a day ahead and on my way to Arrowtown. Arrowtown is a Chinese gold settlement, now a tourist place. Katielyn and I went on a bus for a 25 minute drive to Arrowtown with 1 other person, so it was like a private tour again. On the way there we drove by the Remarkables (named because it is one of the only 2 moutains ranges going north to south and someone was like remarable and that how it was named) and stopped across the road of a popular winery Stoneridge. We took some good pics. In Arrowtown there is one main road called Buckingham Street. On this road is lots of cafes, and stores. Also the muesum is there. We went into the museum and were the only ones, went downstairs and I walked around the corner not expecting to see anything and this manikan and it scared the crap out of me. We went and rented gold panning pans. Not what I expected but still fun, minus the cold water. We got bored after 20 mins and went to find ice cream. On the way back we drove past Cornet Peak, a popular skiing moutian, and because there were only 3 of us, the driver stopped anywhere we wanted for pictures. It was a good trip, but would have been nicer on a hot summer day to just stroll around and be lazy.But still fun.

This is a shot of Shotover river with Cornet Peak in the background. The river is where you go on the shotover boat which is soooo much fun. Anyone who comes here has to go on it!!!