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hi all,
first i wanna say happy birthday to sue, sharon and reece hope you have (had) a great time and celebrate(d) well!
well from whitianga i went to rotorua the biggest geothermal area in new zealand, it was so cool to see steam coming off the rocks and boiling mud - the minus of that was that it stank!!! the cultural evening was pretty good but i was a little disapointed as i got told it was really authentic and it was in reality very touristy, although they did perform the haka which was pretty awesome. from rotorua we went to a place in the middle of nowhere called waitomo - it was nice to be able to chill out for a bit and have an early night, then in the morning we went caving - i found caving quite scary in the dark in an enclossed space but it was cool to see the glow worms - they were like fairy lights all over the ceiling, unfortunately we wernt allowed to take pictures in case it scared them. then we got in a boat to see them more closely, i didnt like that because it was so dark and i couldnt see the boat. we arrived in taupo last night and i went sky diving today, oh my goodness what an amazing experience i have never been so terrified and excited in all of my life - all i kept thinking was why am i going to throw myself out of a plane and to be honest i dont remember much about it, thats why i got the dvd so i can look back at myself in a very unflattering red jumpsuit diving out of a plane, the freefall was 45 seconds before the parachute was pulled and i jumped from 12thou feet which is the highest you can do it without oxygen it was a tandom jump with an instructer and i didnt have to do much apart from hold on, and scream (and swear) lol, the dvd is dubbed with music thankfully. anyway thats about the extent of my day so far, i leave my group on the kiwi experience bus as im going to the east tommorow and they are all heading down south. the east is meant to be very chilled out and apparently ther isnt many places to use the internet and phone signal is rubbish - so dont worry if you dont hear from me for 4days mum. anyway love to you all!
gem xxx
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