From the Old Geezers!

Today, we had some extra time in the morning in Greymouth before returning on the train, so we went to Shantytown. Good news: Instead of $25NZ per person to get in, it was only $20NZ. Bad news: TURNS OUT THAT IS THE SENIOR CITIZEN RATE! And the person just told us $20/person, without asking our ages!!! Ok, now that we got that out of the way, Shantytown was actually kind of cool. It was a historic recreation of the “Old West” for the west coast of NZ. Lots of buildings of how it used to be: school, church, post office, jail, hospital…..Sylvia, we thought you’d like the picture for today – it is a display of old bed pans at the Shantytown hospital! While at Shantytown, we also panned for gold the old-fashioned way. Took us about 20 minutes to get about 3 flecks of gold. We would have starved in the old days. We returned to Greymouth; unfortunately, most shops are closed on Sundays, but we still saw a few and had lunch before getting on the train “home.” We're now home and will be working hard this week so we can enjoy next weekend: Queenstown.

Love, the Geriatrics