wow. so i've had quite an interesting few days. lets see: on thursday morning andy and i left for taupo to have a vacation. thursday we went to our hotel, went to huka falls which was really cool. there is a LOT of water flowing down those. We also went for a mini-hike down to this inlet stream that is naturally hot water. It's so weird to walk up and see steam coming out of the plants. after hiking back we went over to some thermal baths. basically they filter (and cool) the natural hot water and put it in some private pools and some big public pools. it's really relaxing, though if you're not careful it will turn you into a giant prune! Friday we drove up to Rotorua (a town that reeks like sulfur/eggs) and did the Zorb. IT's so cool! A big inflated ball that you go inside and it rolls down the hill. They toss a bucket of warm water in it with you and it's like a giant rolling slip-n-slide. very cool! I tried to do the challenge where you run the whole way down inside the ball...i only made it about 2ft. before i fell. oh well..it was awesome! then after deciding that if we wanted to bungy jump it would be better to be done in taupo, we headed back that way and decided to go see how much skydiving cost. next thing i knew we were getting suited up and taking off! i went skydiving!! it was awesome! jumping out of the plane was actually my favorite part. falling through the sky was cool, but once the parachute was out i wasn't the biggest fan. i think because we kept doing these spiral circle things i almost felt motionsick. wonder if you'd call that parachute-sick or something...? anyways. it was fun. went back to hotel and took a nap, watched rugby. next morning went for a wander along the shores of lake taupo. with the people wakeboarding and the general feel of the place it totally reminded me of lake tahoe. really made me want to go back. d'oh. came back to welli. had dinner, went off to work at curve. hard dance sucks. it's so annoying! only worked til about 4:00 then went home and off to bed.
soccer on sunday was an ass-load of shit. basically we dominated, but couldn't score and nobody would pass the ball out my way even though i was completely unmarked and didnt kick it out everytime i got it. i wont really go off on the full rant about the game cuz nobody wants to read it, but i was really really really frustrated/pissed off afterwards. plus i've done something to my hip? that hurts a lot. i'm tempted to go see a doctor, but it's most likely that once again they'll only tell me not to play. grr. oh well.
gonna go work at bagels today. afterwards i'll come back and give my room a clean and hopefully get some schoolwork done. i meant to get ahead over the holidays but it didnt happen. i also have to get my bum up to uni and start the shrimp so i can feed my precious anemones tomorrow. i dont want to walk up the stupid hill. it's hard enough walking as it is at the moment without a big-ass hill to walk up. grrrrr...i dont deal well with bits of me hurting every time i move.
gah. that's enough whining for one day from me. i'm off to clean my room or something...