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last blog yo, home in 4 days.
august 26th: No snowboardin today witch was bit rubbish but we decided to take up the enjoyable and cheap activity of mountainering! After our nesquick and the advice from our receptionist that the mountain we planned to visit was "quite a trek" we headed for the gondola at the base of said mountain. arriving hear we quickly realised that the gondola was well out of our measly budget for the day and decided, with only our plimpsols and sunglasses to guide us, to walk up the mountain. hour and half later, we reached the top for some pretty sick veiws and did some luge-ing on a track they had at the top. After failing to sneek on the gondola back down we walked all the way back down the mountain and had some jam sandwichs for lunch. i then beat weller at chess again, we had some jam sandwichs for dinner and a cheeky pint and hit the hay.
august 27th: got flight back to aukland today and checked back into our motel hostel thing (cheap as and the guy running it reconised us and gave us a room to ourselves) 3 tv channels and a complimentary clothes hanger awaited us and we crashed out for abit. got a curry, played some pool, brought a crate and had a nite in.
august 28th: caught our bus to rotarua, 5 hours, checked into our lovly hostel where we have a 12 dorm to ourselves.. thermal heated pool all the trimmings. rotarua is nice altho it smells like eggs from all the sulphur from the hot springs and everyone looks a tiny bit inbred. tea, beer, bed.
august 29th: went for a canny walk about in the local woods called red wood forrest, spend about 3 hours walking round there, actully a really impressive forest. We then went to the pub to watch the south africa v. australia witch was kool.
august 30th august 31: over these two days and due entirly to lack of funding and it pissing it down we: watched some football, ate a curry+ nesquick, listened to soem music, laffed at burton, drank beer, swam in pool ect.
sempteber 1st: Today the weather cleared and we had booked to go white water rafting but due the recent down pore it was cancled :-( was well rubbish. both rather disapointed we decided to hire some mountain bikes and head off to the forrest. luke got a well sick full suspension and i got what was effectivly a penny fathing but dispite this we spent the day bombing around the forrest (6th best in the world for mountain biking or somthing) and it definatly made up for the rafting. nakard and tired you find us hear now.
again sorry for the spellings and we will be seeing you all soon x
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