Proper Crimbo

Merry Christmas :)

It's been very warm the last couple of days which is awesome but makes it feel even less like Christmas.

We've been to play mini golf the other day,

Christmas morning we woke up and it was super sunny..

We went into the town but it was dead apart from a little corner shop owned my indians and two indian resturants haha.

This is me and Daniel being happy on christmas

We went down the lake side and watched the ducks for a bit..

They were all just chilling and then suddenly the all got up and went for a swim together n'awww!

We cooked a christmas dinner aswell, we had pork with stuffing, veg, crappy roast potatoes, mini sausages "wrapped" in bacon and gravy, it was bumting considering we've never cooked crimbo dinner before.

For tea we had nachos ;)

We played alot of ping pong too kos they've got a ping pong table outside but we can't play anymore kos I stood on the ball and squashed it :(

Todays been good aswell weather wise, super sunny.
We wanted to stay here in Taupo till after new years but everywhere is fully booked so we've had to arrange to go to Wellington on Wednesday instead.
We wanted to do the tongariro crossing which is supposed to be the best one day walk in NZ but for the next two days its cancelled because of storms and wind (weather is really different in the mountains) which is dissapointing but we're going mountain biking and river kayaking tomorrow and then for Tuesday we've booked parasailing so atleast we're doing some cool stuff before we leave :)

We've just come back from feeding the ducks, it was so funny they go crazy and they're not afraid they were climbing on my feet and biting my thumb haha

There were a load of kids playing on rope swings aswell that swing you into the water, it looked so nice!

(couldn't take a picture of the kids obviously, kos thats wrong)

I'll probably post again when we get to Wellington, we're gonna look for work down there and hopefully stay for 6 weeks or so. I'll let you know how parasailing and kayaking went.

Toodle pip xx

nineteen

I'm nineteen now :( boohoo!
Had a good birthday though, heres my update since my last post..

We left Cactus crappy Jacks on friday and went to base for 2 nights, it was even worse, really boring and nothing to do kos it rained. The people were strange too. There was this weird looking witch lady who had this random pot under her bed..

Straaaange.

For the last two nights we've been staying at the Ibis hotel for my birthday, which was yesterday incase you've forgot!

On my birthday I woke up and my mum and dad rang me, it was the first time I'd spoke to them on the phone since I've been here and it was kind of sad but good to talk to them :)
Then I opened my presents from Dan, this is me wearing all my presents..

We went for breakfast at a cafe then went zorbing, this is zorbing..

(Thats actually me!)

Heres me getting out..

Dan did it too..

In the afternoon we went to the Polynesian spa, its one of the worlds top ten spas.
We got the deluxe private pool for 30 minutes, it over looked the lake and was dead nice and cheap aswell only $53.
I didnt take my camera so its a shame I didnt get a picture but heres one from the website..

(thats not us haaaa)

Afterwards we went to nandossssss and then to a few bars and stuff was good fun so yeah had a good birthday :)
This is us before we went out..

We're in Taupo now which is about 50 miles south of Rotorua and is next to NZs biggest lake. Its fairly sunny again which is good and hostel is niiiice :)
We're looking into doing a bungy next kos we're turning hardcore.

Cyaaaaaa x

mcdodo

We're in Rotorua now as I said we would be.
The hostel is crummy and the city stinks of Sulphur (rotten egg type stink) but its still good fun we're not staying for long :)

Yesterday we went to the rainbow springs wildlife park, it was good fun even though it was raining slightly.
We saw a fat pigeon and really tiny baby ducks..

We went to the cafe they had at the wildlife park for lunch and got these pancakes, daaaaaaaaaaamn they were nice and so worth the $13

Afterwards we went up the skyline gondala ride which is right next to it, t'was good fun kinda scary though!

Today we left for a walk at 11 and only returned at 5! It wasn't supposed to be that long but we got lost and had arguments and Dan lost the map but yeah anyway I can hardly walk now and just when I'd lost all hope, Daniel offered to buy macdonalds if I kept going and so we made it eventually and got a chicken burger, chicken mcbites, fries, coke and a sundae all for $9.90 (about 5 quid)
goooooooooord times :)
I'll put more pictures from today on facebook in the next few days.

Cheerio x

P.s next time I post I'll probably be a ninteen year old (its my birthday on monday) so this is my last post at 18 years old :(
Don't forget to send your e-cards ;)

"weet-bix" race

Heyyyyyyyyyyo!
Title is weet-bix race because we are leaving Pickled Parrot tomorrow morning and at the beginning of our stay bought a 48 pack of 'weet-bix' (NZ's version of weetabix, smaller but nicer in my opinion) anyway it turns out in the free breakfast the hostel offers, weet-bix was provided every day and so now we have an over load of excess weet-bix which we cannot afford to waste so today it's weet-bix for breakfast lunch and dinner and supper and midnight snack, I'll let you know how that one goes.

We've done some cool stuff since I lasted posted so I'll give a brief update..
Sunday we went sea kayaking which I have no photos of for obvious reasons, (camera isnt waterproof) that was fun we got attacked by a baby seagul and found various shell hats, including.. beret small, beret large, small party hat, medium party hat and large party hat. I stored them in my life jacket but unfourtunatley they weren't brought home because we had arguement.
We were approaching the beach (Dan in the back and me in the front) and Dan said "I'm gonna capsize the kayak" to which i replied "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he then attempted to get out of the kayak and in turn tipped me out and into the water, it was cold!
So I turned at hit him with my paddle. It then esculated into many insults and a sad walk home. Shells were lost :(

Monday we went to cape brett, famous "hole in the rock" and dolphin watching cruise.
I can't show a picture because this computer has crap software :/ I'll put them on facebook as soon as I can though. We stopped off in Russel on the way back as well, we had lunch at sallys resturant. It was cool but not mucho to do there really. So we came back and had a nap that lasted about 3 hours.

Last night we went out for a meal to celebrate one month of being here, we went to 35 degrees south, it was a cool round resturant that look out over the sea (although we werent allowed a window table) it was dead posh but really nice, they even had 35 printed into their lemons (?!) It came to $79.70 and it had a tip space on the recipt, we left $80 and left dead quick haaa.

It's a well nice day today for our last day but I'm here writing a blog kos we got washing to be done and can't go out til its done sadly. But hoping to go to the beach later.
Also we've hit the jackpot as Home Alone is showing on channel 3 tonight at 7.30, we've been raving about it all week and today you can feel the excitment.
We're taking up our spot on the sofa at 6pm just incase anyone tries to take this away from us.

Future plans...
6.30am wake up tomorrow and polish off the remaining weet-bix, getting the bus to Auckland at 8am and then the 1.15 bus from Auckland to Rotorua.
Long day.
See you at hells gate xx

sun vs. snow

Happy December :)
Happy sunny weather... or not for you guys!
If it makes you feel better it's not been really sunny its only been slightly sunny recently.
We've been playing tennis everyday because the hostel has free access to tennis courts and they've got rackets and stuff, I'm trying to improve but I'm still awful :(

We went on a walk to the top of a hill..

We were going to go to Russel (the village opposite) but it was too windy and cold so we went to Countdown instead and bought 'homebrand' tiny bears which are like basics or smartprice.
They were wrankkkk, Dan still ate them.

I've been complaining all week about only bringing one pair of shorts, little did I know Dan had bought me some for my birthday to give me on the day but he got pissed with me complaining so he gave me them early :)

This is me in the shorts :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway that's all I have to say for now I'm going kayaking now so gotta go xx