Now that we had been in New Zealand for over one week, we realized we needed to do something to offset the cost of this trip so we headed to Arrowtown which is a small town about 30 minutes away from Queenstown. Arrowtown is on the banks of the Arrow River and is the sight of the New Zealand gold rush which began in 1862. It is a quaint little town that has been very well preserved. Since we knew little about panning for gold we thought we would ask a local...
unfortunately he was not much help. So instead we decided to go to the local museum to learn more about the history of the town and the gold rush. It was a really nice museum in the middle of town and Anna especially liked learning how to use an old telephone operator station.
After visiting the museum we grabbed our shovels and pans and it was off to the river. Here is a picture of Darrell and Anna working hard - while Megan appears to think she can find gold just by looking in the stream. Or maybe the problem is Dad was too cheap to rent three pans:-)
Anna working hard to try and find some gold...
Darrell thinks he has found something, but it turns out to be a shiny rock.
Anna decides to try her luck in the bigger river over the rocks in the background. 
After a couple hours of panning all we had to show for our efforts was wet feet. That's OK, though, because it was another beautiful day in New Zealand.
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