It's been a while, I know, but we've been jetting all over the place- From Rotoura ( yes we did see huge amounts of champagne stylee water explosions) we hopped on a little bus and headed for east cape- first stop Gizzbourne. I don't think words can express how absolutely SWEET AS this trip was. There was only 12 of us and the driver so we had such a blast- getting up a 5 am to see the sunrises ( took two attempts as it was raining the first time) watching the sun set from a jacuzzi whilst sipping on some local wine! We did a wine tasting under the stars for 10 dollars that's about 4.80 for a lorra lorra wine! We climbed a mountain..and I fell back down it ( narrowly missing this large herd of cows standing menacingly at the bottom), we did some bone carving! I carved my own necklace! *proud* ..It's so remote that we really felt immersed in the Maori culture- we did a lot of visiting their places and learnt some of the lingo too ( kihi kihi - kiss kiss the actual name of a town). We did spend about 4 hours on a bus each day but we had tunes 'here comes the sun' being the main anthem and the scenery is just idyllic. We really didn't want to leave!!
On the plus side we are still travelling with lots of people we met on this trip. It really Bizarre our different backgrounds and age ranges ( me and Em are usually the youngest on most buses and it ranged to a eccentric woman of about 50 ish who we named 'no show' as she was late and proceeded to be over enthusiastic with absolutely everything - taking pictures every time we went round a corner and wanting to hunt possums but not actually kill them!) One of the people we made friends with at the beginning of the trip left us at Gizzy and since then we have carried around a doodle of him which holds his own seat on the bus. But more about the people later. Right now we have just stayed another night in Rotoura and are now headed east- to Taupo ..Today we have watched some one shave Angora Rabbits and I managed to hit Em squarely between the eyes with a cookie ( a budget cookie that is about as hard as a rock) - this was by accident but was very comical all the same!! Last night it was 'girls night out' at the bar next to the hostel and we successfully managed to persuade the guys to dress up as girls, which was needless to say hilarious , especially as the bar tender didn't realise that one of them wasn't originally a man!
With all this burning candles at both ends ( came in after 2.30 last night, got up to catch the bus at 7.15 ) it gets pretty knackering- we spend most of our bus journeys sleeping and eating carboard cookies. I cant believe its nearly Christmas! Crazy times but I loveeeee it!
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