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Our drive from Westport was rather long... this wazs broken up by us visiting a gorgeous Seal colony. The views were amazing, cliffs jutting out into the sea and huge waves sploshing everywhere. We stayed there long enough to take some fab pictures and have a wuick coffee. By this time everyone was very banterful and we just took the piss out of eachother the whole time. The drive was long and tedious but tonight we were going to arrive in Lake Mahinipua which is home to the "Poo Pub." This place is in the middle of nowhere and every night when the kiwi Experience goes theres it's a fancy dress party. Our theme was "no clothes" which sounds a bit pervey but it just meant that we had to make costumes out of random stuff. We stopped off in Greymouth to buy some materials for our costumes... I had changed my mind about a million times as to what I wanted to go to the party in. After lookinh in the two dollar shop at some AMAZING accessories i decided it would be good to go as an angel...back to my roots! ha ha. I bought a halo, a wand (dunno why as angles dont have wands do they?) and a sheet to wear. On the journey we played bus olympics....the best game was pretzel racing which is where everyone had a matchstick and each side of the bus is a team and you have to successfully passs the pretzel between people but putting the matchstick inbetween your teeth. It was sooo funny and when people dropped them they had to get on their hands and knees and werent allowed to use their hands to pick it up. It was soo funny! The next game was even worse...we had to close the curtains on the bus so no one outside could see in and the lightest person on each team was passed, in a crowd surfing motion to the back of the bus and all the way to the front again... it was pretty random but so funny.
We pulled into Lake Mahinupua just before 6ish and were greeted by the owner called Les. Les is in his eighties and a grumpy old git, apparently he is only nice to us tourists...thank got! He's got the biggest greyest beard I have seen since father christmas. he came onto the bus and lectured us about bringing "green stuff" (drugs) onto his premises and also that our own alcohol was prohibited. He was so funny with it though but i think a few people were a tad scared of him!
Dinner was laid on by Les and a random bird and it was amazing. There were huge steaks, venisson stew, salad, veg, roast potatoes..the list goes on. it was sooo amazing and it cost 10 bucks..which is under 4 quid. I was stuffed and we all rolled back to our rooms to get ready for the party. Getting ready was hilarious in itself. I was sharing a room with Rachael (we call her Pembo) Heather and Antonette and a couple of other girls. Laura (gizmo) and a few others were in different rooms. I found myself being make up artist to not just some of the girls but also to the boys who had decided to go as fairies...how pretty they looked! Within about half hour of beingin the pub and looking at everyones costumes the drinking games started. Everyone got absolutely mashed. laura was dressed as a snowman and Pembo was dressed as a sheep. The cotton wool on Laura's costume kept falling off everywhere and grumpy git les was so annoyed! There were so many fab costumes and some of the boys had even come as Teenage mutant Ninga turtles...so clever! When everyone was off their t***, our crazy driver Steve got us walking to the lake. We had no idea why but when we got there, Danny decided to strip off and go into the lake in his boxers...it was so funny but no one really knew why he did it! On the walk back to the hostel we saw loads of glow worms...i never really thought they existed, but apparently they do!
In the morning, I was feeling rather worse for wear as was everyone else...in fact you could say we were absolutely hanging!!! We got onto the bus and headed to the "Bushman Centre" on the driver there everyone felt so sick and all we wanted to do was have a huge fry up and get over last night. we arrived at the bushman centre and were subjected to a strange dvd about deer hunting. No one was really interested as we were all feeling minging. When the dvd finished Mike was nominted to feed a pig. This sounds very harmless but when he called the pigs name this hug beast of a pig came running in... it was huge,you could have made about a million bacon sandwiches out of him! That is what I was thinking when I was looking at him cos I was starving! Thankfully this place also had a cafe and once we had looked at the odd little museum we went to the cafe for a nice fry up...it was ok but not as nice as at home! I miss random things...like tesco sausages....mmmm. Anyways, after that it was back on the coach heading for Franz Josef..
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