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Ok here goes, the road trip. Now where did it all start? The first day we drove to napier, we stayed in a nice little yha (or yeeha as i call them) there. We went to a local beach which wasnt so local at 45min drive away. It was nice though all though abit cold so me and rosie didnt swim. That night we had a feast as always and went to some local bars, there was meant to be a grumpy mole around but apparantly it had closed. The bars played loads of hip hop, not really my style and we played pool with some local maori people and kept winning so kept having to keep on playing, simon started playing uk rules and took two shots when a guy fowled and almost got beaten up but luckily there was another guy there to tell him that it was just that he had played uk rules. The backpackers place was called the stables and the rooms were all booked up so me and rosie stayed in the sanctary (an all girls dorm) where the bunks were so high up that if you fell out you would definitly break something. We had some tui that night and some of simons uncles home brewed sambuca! The next morning we played some boardgames, we played guess who but decided that you werent allowed to ask the normal questions like hair colour, instead it was done on the shape of the peoples eyebrows and how many wrinkles they had as well as whether they would look good bald or looked like a paedophile! We were borowing simon's grandads car and only simon was insured on it so he had to drive the whole time. The second day we drove to gisborne, its quite along drive about 5/6 hours and we stopped in some tiny hole on the way and ate lunch there, we had a system that for pudding we had half a yummy lamington each. It was another scorcher that day and we stayed in gisborne yha there its basically a surfing hostel with places for boards and stuff, really nice though there were just 5 of us in an 11 man dorm. We went to the beach and played ultimate frisbee, knackering with just 4 of us on a full size pitch which simon paced out as he was in the oxford uni ultimate frisbee team. We had a nice swim and then headed back for a bbq, with amazing corn on the cop which we bbq as well. It was a mamouth meal which we only just made it through. That night we played uno for a couple of hours and then went to bed. The next night we drove to whakatane we stopped on the way and tried to book rooms luckily the info place found us some at this wicked little hostel, it had only been open 3 days and was cheap as. On the way to the hostel we stopped at another beach, i think that might have actually been the place we played ultimate frisbee but i'm not sure. The hostel cost us $20 with free towels, duvets and a really friendly woman. We watched the first star wars while the boys cooked us a sausage curry. Then we attempted to go out but the place was almost empty. We tried some horrid pink champagne. By this time we had branded ourselves roadkill kebab, after talking about bbq's and roadkill at the same time nick decided he wanted to call his band roadkill kebab. The first cd will be called the 4 stomachs of the cow after a comment i made one night with each of us having a song dedicated to me, i was going to have the reticulum. The next day we drove to rotorua but we stopped at ohope on the way, at the beach there we made a car sandcastle, we dug the whole thing out and then sat in it, it took a long time! But it was amazing by the end of it. We played more frisbee and then minigolf, i wasnt great at it but i got going towards the end and got a hole in one on the last hole. It was extreme uv levels and i was wearing factor 45 all day but it was baking. We had giant ice creams there, we all had 2 scoops except simon who had 3, it was so big i could only just finish it and we got ice cream everywhere. At rotorua we slept at an ok hostel called blarney's rock that took us forever to find. We played a few drinking games there and then the next day took the waitomo wanderer bus to the glow worm caves. We went with the black water rafting company on a 5 hour trip. It was amazing, first we absailed down into the caves on racks (a type of lowering device) then as i sat at the bottom and waited for the others to come down my eyes became accustomed to the light (or dark as it may be) and i could see loads of glow worms. We then took a flying fox (or zip wire) through the dark to another part of the caves. We only had 7 people in our group with 2 guides which was great. There we sat on some rocks and had tea and cakes and then jumped in on inner tubes into the water and swum along abit then turned out our head lamps and floated back down stream as a raft looking ath the amazing glow worms on the ceilings, it is aparantly the darkest place you will go as there is no natural light down there. Then we did some crawling through the caves and streams, some bits where quite tight to get through and sat and had some choclate and hot orange. Then climbed up a couple of waterfalls, that bit was great as they were quite awkward to climb up and then we were out again. We had two great guides and all loved it. Then drove back to rotorua to pick up the car and then back down to taupo to simons aunts house. We had a nice supper there and ended up staying the night with his cousins. Then this morning we caught the kiwi bus again which had sam and jez on it and now were back in rotorua. Tonight me and rosie are going to a maori cultural thing with supper which should be fun and then tomorrow we leave for auckland where i fly out the next day. Phew i'm exausted now! E
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