Hey everyone,
Bare with me as this is costing me alot to be using the computer lol.. Thats why i didnt write for a couple days. And might not be editing this for my spelling mistakes.
I met up with the contiki tour in Auckland my second day on my trip. Met alot of friends so far Mylene from Montreal canada is who i am sharing a room with and have been spending lots of time with. Also Amanda and Leanne from Toronto, Alex and Josh from Melbourne Australia, Emma from Perth, Kerin, Mona and Carina from Australia, Christina from Germany, Anna from England!!! Just to name a few. We are travelling with 45 people right now, which most of them are Australian. on a 50 person Contiki bus. So we are getting to know each other really well. Our tour guides are Sheree and Pumba (Nathan) and our driver is Mikey.
We drove to Waitomo first and it was a small town with a population of 48 ppl so we also doubled it when we arrived. I did a Ruakuri Cave tour which was to see the rock formations and glow worms (which are Maggots GROSS) but so cool looking a dark cave. Had an amazing dinner and then went to Curlys Pub to watch the Rugby games. Which its awesome to be here during the world cup :) everyone is crazy fans here. We watched French beat England the next night Oz vs South africa and then All black (new zealand) vs Argentina. I like sports but dont really know rugby so have been trying to follow it. i enjoy the excitement.
The hotels that ive been staying in are sooo amazing and all the meals included are sooo good. Im not going to like to ACTUALLY backpack later haha.
Drove to Rotorua (which means 2nd Lake- And thats cause when discovering this area it was the second lake that they found LOL, so creative) Here we went to the Agrodome where we learnt how to milk cows, sheep and all about the different sheep there is, and how to sheer a sheep. It was really neat but i felt like i could just go to my grandmas house lol. We drove to the Zorbing which i was super excited for before i left for my trip and its a ball that you go into down a new zealand hill. I went with alex and we went in the wet one together which they put soap and water it was so much fun :) Then went to Skyline Gondola where you can see the whole town of Rotorua and on the hill side we did the Luge tracks. Which is like go carts but no motors cause were gettgin the speed from the hills. It was fast but wicked. This town was full of Thermal pools and volcano sites. It smelt soooo bad (almost as bad as india amber lol) i had to plug my nose when i was sleeping. but they had a grave site where they bury the dead people above ground cause they cant have there bodies underground. There was steam coming up from everywhere and we went to mulitple sites. Really neat place.
Headed to Taupo and i did the Rock n' Ropes, something that is to get ruid of your fear of heights :( i was sooo scary for sure. people say its worse than bungy or skydiving. You walk on wires Logs and bridges just in a harness. I had to climb up a telephone pole and then leap from the top of it and try to catch a swing. i felt like i was at a circus lol.. Only me and one other girl could jump and get the swing. Minus all the boys but there was like 12 girls. I took pics but they might not justify the fear i was going thru feeling hardly tied in. and nothing under us. I did the big swing as well is close to bungy but in a swing. CRAZY for sure might be ready for bungy now. We went to Huka falls a waterfall and craters of the mooon which is a volcanic site that last erupted in sept 2002. The ground was soo warm thought it was soo cold out. The weather has been really cold but sometimes sunny (but there is still a wind) so ive not really packed for this as Australia will be summer for me. When i wake up i pretty much decide if i would like to wear my Blue sweater or my pink one haha... Such a hard choice i know. Amber this reminds me of you. Ive over packed too so have been deciding what to throw out next everytime i go to pack my things up. it seems as tho i cant close my luggage. Im throwing my hair spray/nailpolish out next lol. We had a dinner cruise at night time so went into town with some of the poeple and we had to get costumes that start with a M or P cause our tour guides names are Mikey and Pumba... So me, Mylene and Amanda found these Huge ties that said Mr.Perfect which was BOTH letters lol. And dressed as men with sunglasses and mustaches. It was funny. Others dressed as pimp, miney mouse, panda, mike tyson, pumpkin... All in all a good night,. Everyone was hung over for our bus the next morning one girl didnt get home til 730 am when our bus was leaving. One girl didnt last 5 mins before throwing up on the bus. Our bus was 5 hrs (the longest one yet) and it was a rough one haha.
The bus rides have been awesome we play theme song for our trip Flo rida sometimes every morning and usually we get up at 730am and we have to dance and sing everyday on the bus while they blar that song. Mickey drove in a round about with the bus til everyone was standing ahaha. we play games too. We set Josh up on a date with Leanne toniught. We answered a bunch of q's ona paper and not write our name and josh had to pick someone from what they wrote. We have code words for Sex which is Cup of tea haha. And when we are about to get to a destination Pumba plays a budlight commercial and a differ\ent on everytime.
Anyways im having an amazing time and am now in Wellington where we ahve a dinner tonight then im ATVing tomorrow morning. we are here for 2 days then head on a ferry to Christchurch the south island.
Love you all Mieks <3
and happy thanksgiving
The bus has been a really fun
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