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Greetings, and welcome to a very delayed edition of Chris's blog! but you know, im entitled to a writers strike as much as the next person, on the basis of i have to pay for internet and prob the obvious, im a wee bit lazy! but its all good, cos im awesome, therefore there be, as the kiwis would say, "no dramas!!"
So hello guys, be it family friends or foes (or that odd internet perve who spies on what people are doing on the otherside of the world) and welcome to my New Zealand part of my travel blog. im actually in Australia, but we'll play fantacy and pretend im at the end of the "Kiwi Experience"
New zeland has pretty much been go Go GO!!! i think the latest lie in i got was 9am, and if you know me well, you can imagine the grumpyness that was expelling my person. so yeah, so much happened in the 3 weeks i was here, that i dont know what and what no to include, so ive decided to give the main AWESOME points, the bits i've loved the most, basically that bits that are to make you green with envy, and jealous as! i dont know where to start, so i'm going to begin with the North Island of New zealand, where i started! (sorry for all this waffling i took to get to what i actually been up to, but you'll forgive me. MISS YOU )
NORTH ISLAND
Arrived in Auckland on the 1st May 2008, which is north North island, and where i began my kiwi travel with 'S' 'R' and new adoptie pal Nick aka 'N'. Here is the main points that happened on this half of the country:
- - The day we arrived, we decided to go up the 'Sky Tower', which can be best described and a large erected pole, in the city centre of auckland. this is 300+ feet high, and at the bottom i was a right cocky little b-word with "ah thats alrite. no worries, that'll be nothing, piece of urine!" how wrong was i? that tower s*** me up big and proper, pretty much from the word "up" as the lift not only had glass doors, that climbed the outside of the building, but it had a fecking glass floor aswell! as soon as i was up the top, i was playing the 'EMA TV advert guy' and sticking and crwaling the walls like a poster, while the other guys were merely walking round floor, doing the glass floor circuit! its not that i wanted to be a wimp, but when your that high, being a person with height issues(to put it lightly) and watching peole doing 'sky jumps' from the outside the building, that messes with your brain big time! sky jump, is like a bungy, people jump off top, but differs slightly as there is no bouce back hanging upside business! but anywho, in the end i got used to it, and managed to look at the side. where i was like "yeah great. auckland. didnt see that from the ground"
- - After maybe few days too long in auckland, we did our only stop up the country to Paihia, the bay of islands and what a bloddy waste of time that was. it pee'd it town the whole time we are there! enough said.
- - back in auckland, on our way back down the country, we stopped in auckland again, where it turned out a Foo fighters concert was being held, and there was no room anywhere. it turned out, the hostel we stayed at before, were really nice to us and let us sleep on there sofas in lounge. which, finally when people start to leave and i dze off at 12ish, the fire alarm goes, the whole building is evacuated and 6 fire engines arrive for nothing, and once we went in and i thought id finally get some sleep, people decided to take this as cue to stay up and atart playing pool and watching films, which annoying i get into the film and stay up til 3ish watching it, when up at sevenish, to get bus down the country.
- - The way we are travelling to the country, is via a company called "kiwi experience" which take you via big bright green coaches, mainly other travellers, round the country, stopping at the main points of interest for the main adventures that were about to come!
- - Rotorua - geothermal land of fart, cos blimey o'riley did that place stink, id say it was a mixture of rotten cheese, eggs, body odours and SH*T! was awesome though, but as it was geo thermal ground everywhere the ground was hot and many places were sectioned off as geizers and hot mud pools were constantly erupting, and the place rieked because of all the sulphur being released! first this we did was Luging! this is a kiwi sport, where you ride up to top of mountain, get on a tray with wheels and ride as fast as you can all the way back down, blooming wicked and it has to be said, i looked hot in my hat, that was just that bit too small and placed atop of the head, rather than on! Later that night, we did a Maori Culture Experience Night, which bluntly was alot of fat Maori people, wearing next to nothing (when maybe it would have been wise to maybe hide a few of their man boobs, to avoid the risk of being smacked in the face by them mid dance), jumping about in front of me for an hour, poking there toungue out and glaring there eyes wide, followed by an awesome meal and me getting slightly drunk on wine. GOOD TIMES! actually, the best bit was when the bus kept circling the roundabout and beeping horns with other buses, while our whole bus gave out our best rendition of: "she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes" OH YEAHHH! hardcore stuff to say the least! Next day, we visited Georthermal centre where we did the cool, though slightly boring for you, touristy bit and visited the large geizers erupt and met a kiwi bird, funniest bit was more maori culture stuff, when all guys of our bus were taught the "Haka" a maori tribal dance, which primarily is jumping and shouting and poking our toungue out, and performed for the girls, who then gave us a poi dance show!
- - Waitomo! Black Water Rafting, which is up there with the funnest things to do! you get dressed into rediculous wetsuits and boots, grab a hat with lamp attached, and rubber ring, then we went into under ground caves, and you jump off waterfalls backwards with your tube into underground water tunnels, and let the current take you at sped through the caves, where at points all turn lamps off and see the amazing glow worms on the cave roof, all hanging and lighting up the tunnels, i think i possibly lost my balls to freezing temps, but so hilarious! Later that night we got a little drunk again, and began to properly get to know the people round us and we made a wicked group of 9 of us which lasted the rest of the trip, and the legend that is Liz (my bed buddy, i was always on top) who around 30's, get so slaughtered and was found outside her room unconscious at 7 in morning, and lost all her stuff, camera passport money, ROOM KEY, the lot...but guess who was duty hero, went to the bar found out she went to house party, went to that house and found her stuff and returned it to a still very wasted liz? ah ofcourse it was me! couldnt be anyone other really if we're honest, Hero my middle name
- - Taupo! only the SKY FECKIN DIVE! 15,000 feet over lake taupo(the size of singapore), Action Man t-shirt on (cos we've already learnt, i am the greatest hero of them all!lol haha), falling out of plane and also, i was the only one her got to take control of the parishute and stear us all the way back down, inbetween rollercoaster spins and turns! i cant explain how amazing sky diving was (so good i might have sort of kinda maybe perhaps done a second one in the south island ), though have learnt getting abit tipsy the night before and doing it on hangover, might not have been a good idea, but to be fair it was the best wake up cure!!
- River Valley: possibly the biggest waste of time this side off period drama programs, as was situated in the middle of nowhere, so far out the bus couldnt get all the way, we had to walk rest way with stuff, and the the accommadation was literally 4 huge beds for everyone to sleep on! kind of funny, i obv get the part bed where the resident cat sleeps on and get attacked throughout the night!
- Ferry to south Island: we'd heard the crossing between both parts of the country was really bad, but we couldnt have had a better time, we found the playground straight away (during NZ we had a habbit of visiting parks and kids playgrounds, but we did wait for the litlle children to go as that may have been a bit creppy, 9 grown adults visiting a kids park while little children ran around, so we did the other classy thing and usually went at midnight after a few drinks, but NZ pretty much a Big Kids heaven, so it was finee!!!) so yeah we found the park straight away, which we all ended up all getting friction burns on the slide, then we went to deck where amazing sight of dolphins following the boats and putting on show of jumping and talking, while the cows mooed in the background (for some reason 100's cows were on the boat. one stared at me. i stared back. i won the contest)
and yep that was the North Island of New Zealand, was awesome, and it only got better in next island! ah how could i forget, i also visited HOBBITON! and Gollem! not as fun as you'd think!
stay tuned for the next installment, where 'Grandma Wilkie' makes her debut appearance!!
Keep in touch guys, hope your all good!
Laterrrs
"C"
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