Copthorne Manuels Taupo

... haetten wirs uns noch anders ueberlegt. Jedenfalls sind wir wirklich gesprungen. Ein absolut unbeschreibliches Gefuehl! Josh hat Fotos dabei machen lassen (ich nicht, war mir ums Geld), die gibts dann demnaechst auch hier! :)<br><br><br>Yeahhhhhhh, we really did it: we went skydiving!!!! It was awesome!!!!! I still can't believe it. It happened so quickly. We just went to the tourist ...

... world that sees the very first sunrise every day. These are the lucky people Father Christmas must visit first every year too. Which has got to be good. Ringing all your friends up around the world &#8220;What do you mean you don't know what you've got yet? It's still Christmas eve? We've been eating turkey for forty five minutes!&#8221; <br><br>Next time on ATWIEH I complete my New Zealand adventure and head to Fiji and it's tropical charms. It's all very exciting!<br><br>Love, Dan.

... picked up our rental car! It is very exciting to have some more freedom and be able to travel where WE want and when WE want. Our drive north to Taupo was uneventful, we had good weather and Mike did a great job adjusting the driving on the other side of the road (despite my nervous/bossy comments). We checked into the timeshare condo, The Village Resort, which is very nice! Yesterday, Saturday I (Annie) woke up not feeling well (but don't ...

... following morning so we'd have plenty of time to "think" about it. She offered us a time slot about ten minutes in the future and we accepted. I think Jay was in shock as we drove to the Taupo airport about to embark on this wild , perhaps suicidal adventure. Once there, we quickly dealt with the pushy rude salesgirl who attempted to upsell us, and got suited up within about an hour. The sky looked quite cloudy and they weren't entirely sure they'd be able to make the ...

... earth and I LOVED IT! Freddy had somersaulted us out of the plane and after we had flipped back over to face the earth below us JK was straight over filming us close up. We had a great time doing all sorts of cool moves (superman, blowing kisses, swimming etc) as we rushed towards the ground below and I was having an absolute ball when Freddy pulled the parachute and we were jerked upwards from the pull of it. It wasn't the most comfortable on the ****** area but luckily I'm not ...

Greetings from Taupo. A number of our bus mates are off skydiving today... Kristen is too scared and I am too fat... Actually I'm too cheap.... Actually I'm too scared. There's a 100kg limit...I'm just slightly over that (but I will win my bet with Max eventually for those keeping track). It's also really expensive. So I decided to keep my feet firmly on the ground this afternoon, or stay off them entirely, since we plan to do ...

... were no similar 3rd floor rooms available. The battleaxe tried to call our bluff by saying that all she could suggest was that we went somewhere else. Rather taken back by Jayne saying "ok provided you don't charge us anything" she miraculously found us a 3rd floor room after moving another couple who she said she had promised to put next to their friends. (Given that our booking ...

... small town of Katikati, which, according to the Rough Guide, had been dealt a devastating economic blow when the price of kiwi fruit collapsed in the 1980s. In an attempt to refashion itself and attract passing tourist trade it's become known as "Mural Town", with any available blank wall becoming an artist's canvas. We paused awhile to admire the results. Shortly after we recommenced our journey the warm sunshine gave way to heavy showers - our first rain ...

... calm, i think it was a form of denial, that and being sat on his lap and shamelss flirting- and that i was distracted by a stupidly fit camera man aboard. I didn't even realsie what i'd done but soon found myslef infront of him talking to him and gushing a bit! Anyway we were soon in a plane and after a brief period at 12,000 feet and some people jumping we headed on up, by this time i had a trail of thought not disimilar to 'what the **** are you doing ...

... be seen for the most part - wow! At one point we reached a really steep snowfield and using our ice picks as brakes, slid down very fast on our bottoms! Awesome fun - the irish boys were dangerous! The walk was also enhanced by the fantastic weather - it was worth waiting in Taupo to do this. The Irish, true to Irish form, seemed to spend the day "having a crack" at my expense! It was all in good spirits though and even Stu picked up on it, finding it very ...