Where are all the Kiwi's?

In the few days I spent in Queenstown, I think I met one person that was actually from New Zealand. It was a bit disheartening at first but I met some other great people as well. I spent a day with Tommy, a Bolivian/Tawainese guys who had been living in Australia for a while and was in Queenstown on a break and to try skiing for the first time. I met he and his friend Edward and had a great time with both of them. I was planning on just hanging out around town Monday and maybe taking a hike or playing frisbee golf. Instead Tommy and I shared the infamous Big Al burger from Fergburger and hiked up to the top of the Queentown peak to get a better view of the city. The hike was good, it was suspose to take us 45 min but we took a few detours, and photo ops, as well as relished over a piece of ice. Tommy had never seen snow or ice and to see his excitment over a piece of ice was quite enjoyable.
At the top there is a luge, resturant and viewing deck. The views were incredible! The on to the luge. Think Mario Kart. You take a ski lift up to the top then cruise on down and let me just say those sucker go fast. I felt/looked like a ninja turtle because I had on my orange backpack. We were running short on time so we opted to take the gondola down.
So after run in's with people from Bolovia, Holland, America, Australia, UK (including New Castle which is by far the hardest accent to understand), and Canadians, I left Queenstown and headed for Franz Josef Glacier.