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OK - I'm now In Rotorua...journey to get here has been fun. Most of Tues was spent traveling but we stopped off at a couple of great bays - Stingray Bay and Cathedral Cove. The weather wasn't good (pics of me in my Alton Towers mac!) which was a shame but probably a good thing as I wouldn't have wanted to leave the place.....we then had a stop off at Mercury Bay overnight which was film and early night for us all!
We then headed into Rotorua, visited a really pretty gorge and then onto zorbing (!!!) SOOOO much fun - we chose the wet option which meant 3 of us had to dive into a huge inflated ball, followed by loads of water and rolled down a hill. It was like being in a huge washing machine, we couldn't stop laughing - hilarious!
Then night time was Maori night. A show on the background and culture and then onto a Maori feast which was just a massive roast dinner! It was like Christmas dinner - stuffing and the lot. Not sure how 'traditional' it was but was eat as much as you like so everyone was happy...! We were meant to leave this morning to head to Waitomo but Rotorua has so much to do that Charlotte and I decided to spend an extra night....shame we've left the others but I"m thinking of doing an add on to the East Coast as have heard so many good things about it so would be leaving them soon anyway. Only trouble is there's only one spot on the bus tomorrow at the moment so I may be here another day as I have way more time to play with :( Well worth staying though as we went to the Thermal Wonderland this morning to see the Geysers and hot mud pools etc and then to the Kiwi Encounter this afternoon to visit the project where they're breeding and saving injured Kiwi birds which was cool.
Tonight was going to be an early one after too much drinking and dancing last night but we've just been ordered by our nominated 'chief' from last night that we're going to the bar so we'll see..........going to the supermarket now to get food for dinner as I've been living like I'm on holiday and it's finally hit me that I need to curb the spending! There are so many things to do and they're pretty costly so need to stop eating out for a few days :(
Oh! And have a new camera - wahoo! I can now get all the good pics as the flash and speed of mine was so dire so will upload more soon. More shelling out I know but definitely worth it!
Missing everyone (really am!) and loving the messages (apart from all the hair comments people!!). Will mail you all soon xxx
PS - sorry if this has been a bid disjointed - I've had the nicest old man on the computer next to me nattering on and showing me his holiday snaps from his new boat all the way through - it's been hard to type and I have taken triple the time to write this!
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