So yesterday Chrissy and I managed a whole day without drinking (thought I'd add that for my mum - but it's completely 100% the truth though)
Ok anyways this morning Chrissy and I had Quad biking - so, with no concept of time I headed off in search of a banana (no joy) and Starbucks... I ran into someone who let me know my bus was a Cactus Jacks so I ran down the street in my jandles (! - so Kiwi ay bro? - trying to get the lingo down for when I move here) spilling coffee everywhere... slowed down to laugh at myself with the old man who clearly thought I looked pretty stupid and kept running - luckily (for more reasons that will become clear later) me and Chrissy were the only ones doing it in the morning so the lady was sweet.
Hmmm - well we geared up for the Quad bikes - in an attractive ensemble of gumboots big jackets and a race helmet - and headed to the practice track. Anyway quad biking is pretty easy ... or looks it.... hang onto the handle bar, push the thing at the front to accelerate or squeeze the thing at the back int to brake. Unfortunately my driving ability is as good as my quad biking ability and it took me a while to get the hang of it...
We had gone a little way from there and right near the cow paddock when my bikes STOPS... like dead... i was so worried that I broke it so I wait for the guy to notice and he comes us and re starts it - turns out i just accidently pushed the off button.... I swear I am not doing much for the Aussie reputation here in New Zealand - everyone either thinks I am really stupid or on some kick ass drugs (which, to clear things up, I am not - my natural exuberance just gets carried away sometimes - hahaha)
Anyways, we finally get started again and get through to the cow paddock - so cute coz there were baby cows - but the cows got scared and some of the ran - after that it was all over - i still find running farm animals hilarious - so i almost toppled off my bike from laughter... actually I was so distracted that I forgot to break and jumped my bike off the (insert word for "bit thats higher than the place I wanna be" when i know what it is)... which made the guide laugh, coz i got a look of shock, mixed with laughing, mixed with worry, mixed with me normal everyday face - coz again i was worried I broke something.. (they make you sing a piece of paper saying you'll pay the damage if you break the bikes from being reckless or an idiot - both things that happen without me realising)... hmm - um so the rest of the quad biking was just so much fun, took me forever to kinda understand what to do so i kept falling pretty far behind Chrissy and the guide person. Anyways luckily I finally understood what to do by the time we got to the forest part - coz the forest had mud puddles and stuff.
Omg it was so much fun... like I'm writing Santa a letter today, cancelling my Christmas order of footy games on DVD and asking for a quad bike instead! The guide would go through, then Chrissy pretty safely after while I waited and then I would accelerate right into the mud so it smashed up everywhere, then recover from my fit of giggles and repeat at the next mud puddle.
When we stopped in the middle of the forest the guide clued up pretty quickly about my love of mud so he was doing it too - where I learned how to do it a bit better by copying - unfortunately I didn't learn good enough coz i geared myself up to go thruogh this really big mud puddle, and got stuck right in the middle instead. It was so funny... the three of us just stood there laughing for a bit until he came and had to like tug the bike out of the mud - while i stood there watching and laughing! The guy was like the nicest guy ever though... he even cleaned my seat up with leaves (was kinda a waste coz my whole J Lo booty sized ass was covered in mud - and my face, neck, jacket and legs too....) anyways... aside from almost running into a flower (an ugly thistle looking, live on a tree kinda thing flower) patch the rest was pretty much just the same kind of fun, me laughing like an idiot the whole time. was some nice views from the top of the mountain. Haha - the guy goes later "At least I knew you weren't dead, coz all i could hear the whole time was you giggling - and it must of been loud coz those bikes were noisy. At least the laughter was contagious - coz he kept turning around to laugh at me too. (PS. Katie Fact #82 - I was voted 'Giggliest' in my year 10 year book - im glad i was able to put the title to good use....) I'll add some photo later so check back.
Anyways after shopping and lunch we went on some Rafting thing... We had originally wanted to go sledging - but thankfully we were advised to try rafting - think i would of broken something if i went sledging.
Below are some photos of rafting before the story comes... not the most flattering outfit either - them wetsuits are gross - but at least i am saving money on costumes and themed outfits.... PS. email me if you have any better halloween costume ideas than a rabbit (inspired by the Rabbitohs not playboy)
So the rafting guys were great - they were super funnny - although the guy who drove the bus thought the idiot/on drugs thing coz we had the giggles the whole time we wwere there as well. We found everything funny! and then when we laugghed we found laughing funny and laughed again... hahaha
um so - first adventure - putting on a wetsuit - which we managed with great difficulty and a lot of laughter (oh and met this super great girl from Wales) so us girls had the funnest time. Finally we got ready to raft, had a few practice gos at things first (turns out Chrissy is not so great at the "sit in the boat thing - and I am not good at the paddles down thing - I was pretty set on holding the paddle backwards and hitting myself in the face head with the paddle - lucky they provided a helmet)...
Ill post a video at some point so you can see what it is but it is basically paddling a raft and then going thorugh rapids and some small waterfalls (and a big 7m one - that didnt seem like 7m wirth of scary) - the guys also showed us where they take the ladies and taught us some pretty cheesy NZ pick up lines! After we finished we carried the raft up (well me and Chrissy carried the paddles ....) and then jumped off (still need that word for something higher than where you wanna be) into some rapids before heading back to the place for photo viewing (to a Miley Cyrus song - hahah - sorry everyone) and getting changed... which was another adventure.
The guys must of thought they were missing out on something great coz we were in the change rooms for like half an hour laughing like idiots.... but poor Chrissy and Llior got stuck in there wetsuits... i told CHrissy to sit down while I pulled the wetsuit - problem was with one big pull she came flying off the chair and landed flat on her ass on the ground.... Llior had better luck coz she started on the ground but she was dragged along the wooden floor for a bit before the wetsuit came off.....
Anyways - I'm off to get some vodka in my system but ill try put some photos up later...
love you (well some of you), miss you (again some of you ) never wanna come back
xoxoxo
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