Wed 11th March - Waitomo/Taupo

After having a nice chilled evening in waitomo, which is a small little place with a nice hostel. We headed off to taupo stopping on the way to do black water rafting. Black water rafting was pretty awesome we spent about 3 hours 65m underground in these small little caves with a wesuit, a rubber ring and a head torch. Was very cool down there, with all the stalecmites and glow worms hanging down from the ceiling, the water though was incredibly cold but we soon got used to it. So after three hours of making our way down the tight waterways and jumping off waterfalls underwater we emergeged from the caves still alive. It was a good laugh, and well worth the money.

By late afternoon on wednesday we had made it to taupo, which sits on a lake the size of singapore. We chilled out for a bit the headed to liquor land to stock up for the night! In the end we ended up playing ring of fire with a sink full of what i can only describe as death juice but what we have somehow managed to call crunk juice. This time it was made up of vodka, jagermeister, malibu, scrumpy jack, speights beer, abseinth energy drink, sprite, blackcurrant and just to keep it a little healthy a berocca (sams idea - really didnt help the hangover). So after 2 sinks worth of the so called crunk juice had been consumed we headed for the local bar, element. We ended having a boat race ( drinking race) with some danish guys and ended up loosing ( i blame slater) but was still a laugh. So the night ended epically as usual with slater not being able to see much and spending his whole time laughing at sams finger!! Anyways was a pretty good night out!

Thursday brought us a new day and some awful headaches slater i reckon feeling the worst of us passing out in the corridor on the way to breakfast. ha! But we soon recovered and we challenged to a little bit of footie by the danish guys from the night before. In an epic game which brought many on the kiwi experience goers down to watch was stuck at 4 - 4 for a while, with the next goal wins rule in place. Guy made an epic bicycle kick save which kept us in it but then a mistake at the back let the danish through! Shame we lost but was a good laugh and cleared up the hangovers.

Friday 13th March - SKYDIVE DAY

Me, guy, slates, will and sam (not skydiving due to being a massive p**** woke up early after a chilled night the night before. We were all buzzing and couldnt wait to throw ourselves out of a plane, then someone chucked a spanner in the works saying it was friday 13th!! We headed off to the skydive centre slightly more nervous due to the date!! We got there and got kitted up and then drew crap in permanent marker on each other. I ended up with a french moustache and MENTAL on my chin then my instructor drew a c*** on my face in the plane. Guy was drawn up as a cat, will a panda and slates as the iron chef of pounding vaaj!! We all got into the little plane, which was tiny and seemed to fit and 5 people to many. The flight took 30mins to get to 15,000ft and we had to use oxygen masks for some reason from about 10,000ft. Then the green light came on, the door was flung open and a mass of wind entered the plane. Slater was off first and judging from the dvd afterwards he was the most scared, with the first word on the DVD being FUUUUCK. Guy was to follow where he pulled hundreds of poses for the camera as usual! Then i was off with my instructor called malachi. Absolutely amazing! The first 10 seconds is so good! One of the best feelings/adrenaline rushes i have ever had! I then fell for a further 50seconds taking in the amazing scenes as i was freefalling through the air! We then pulled the chute and glided down to the ground. The best feeling ever! I am definately doing it again!!!