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Merry Christmas Everyone!
... falls flow down from Lake Taupo.
After our walk we fancied a swim and in the ``bible'’ – Lonely Planet guide, it suggests that Acacia Bay is a 'particularly nice spot’, so we drove there….couldnt find the place they were talking about, turned around and headed back to Hot water beach along Taupo Lake front. The ...
Hello Mount Doom :)
... on the edge, with my legs dangling over the side of the plane..just waiting to jump. The feeling once I'd jumped was terrific - 45 seconds of freefall, so exhilerating!! Although it was quite hard to breathe because the cold air was hitting my face at such a high speed. Definately not as terrifying at the bungy, although I did breathe a huge sigh of relief when the parachute opened :). The rest of the the skydive was brilliant, ...
Taupo
... about how amazing it was. He's not had the opportunity to see much outside of Wellington since arriving here 9 months ago so I think it was a bit of an eye opener. He's heading north from here as I go south so I told him about the places I'd managed to see already such as Hot Water Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula, Waitomo and Paihia in particular, turns out he's gonna see them too :)
I felt a bit bad for Michael that evening, we just couldn't stop talking ...
Champion
... in the first place!
Dad failed to win us $10,000 by not getting a hole in one, even though the hole was only 111 yards away. Ok, it was in the middle of a lake, but still! He did manage to get it very close every time though, so I suppose he did us proud in front of the other people trying it too. He didn’t do very at mini golf though- his short game lets him down, ha. Unfortunately he still beat me and Mum.
On to our last port of call- Hamilton.
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Rock the Boat – The Māori & The Cavemen
... normally now in the town center, sure NZ is buckin freezing FFS, there’s no way them lads would survive in them straw skirts)
Our tribal leader (Brian) and the other bus leaders/people who put their hand up, then went into the villages first, bearing gifts. This Welsh guy was loving it, thought he was he was in the movie Apocolypto. Anyways, after we learnt some of the lingo [kia Ora - doggy doggy doggy meaning hello/thank-you/everything only without the ...


