What an amazing weekend I've had! Laura and I did the Tongariro Crosding! 19.4k in 7 and a half hours over a mountain!! We had a package deal which was 2 nights in a hotel with dinner , breakfast both mornings, a lunch to take on the crossing and transfers to the crossing. We stayed in ohakune. I arrived Friday afternoon and when I checked in the guy said we probably wouldn't be walking Saturday as the weather forecast was bad! I knew the weather didn't look gr...

What a great couple of weekends I've had. Laura came to stay again on my last weekend off. She came up on the bus to Hamilton so I picked her up and we went to TA for dessert as I told her so much about the desserts. Unfortunately we got there too late and the kitchen was closed! Kylie who we met at the speed dating came with us too. On Saturday we went to the Blue springs again and did the whole walk around which took us 2 hours. Well we didn't quiet do it al...

Last weekend I volunteered at equidays which was a bit like Your Horse Live. It had demonstations, competitions and lots of shopping. I worked on the Saturday day and evening. I was put on one of the gates which was the most boring job ever! There were 3 of us and we had to also tell people they can't park where we were standing and this lady drove straight up ignored the signs and parked so I went over to her to tell her she couldn't park there and she went ...

What a great few weeks I've had! I got given last weekend off as an extra weekend off so Laura came up to stay. She came really late on Friday so we didn't do anything but on Saturday I showed her around the farm then we went to got to Arapuni Swing Brigde but I put the wrong address in my phone! whoops it was ok though we ended up in Putaruru where we were going anyway. We stopped for lunch in a place called crazy cow cafe. I had a lovely fish burger and the...

I have a new tattoo!!! 2 weeks ago I had a 4 day weekend! I was off from the Thursday! It was so nice to have a good break. On the Thursday I went to Hamilton and got a tattoo! I had been thinking about it for a while and had emailed the tattooist but thought it best I go in and discuss what I wanted so I did just that and they managed to fit me in there and then! I got Carpe Diem with a heart and aeroplane on my left foot! It really hurt especially the heart a...