Tuesday, April 27, 2010

long overdue update

ok, so where was i, oh yeah, i got my wheels and was about to head out on my road trip. so im now in napier, the art deco capital of the world apparently, have booked in for 2 nights here and have free wifi, u cant believe how happy i am to have free wifi 24hrs, NZ hasnt really grasped the concept of free wifi yet, even if u go to coffee shops or stay in hostels they still want you to pay, makes life on the road very difficult! anyway, soooooooo. before i left me chris and his gf rose went out for a farewell dinner, rose paid, which was very nice of her considering i said i would take chris out to dinner for putting me up for over a week!

chris sad his dinner arrived last, rose happy hers didnt
me glad to get mine, it was gooood
chris gets his at last
finally started our road trip on tuesday, we headed to the coromandel and stopped at thames for the night before heading up and around the peninsula, id seen it before but heather, my co-pilot hadnt and we wernt meeting kelly till the evening so i thought we could cruise round

us with the car, i still have to name it
some pics from our trip along the coromandel
we made it to kellys uncles place in pauanui at about 4pm and wasted no time in getting straight into the beers, good times!
we had also had an NZ chippy to go with the beers, with a large selection of pretend heinz tomato sauce
then kellys auntie, uncle and friends turned up absolutely wasted!! now i know where kelly gets her driking habits from! this is her auntie, maybe wearing a mask, pretty GLAM!
me also looking pretty GLAM
kellys uncles mate trying to get us to sit on his knee and kiss his cheek, iv heard of guys like this!!
our accom for the 4 days we stayed there, best garage set up iv ever seem!
next day peter (who was sooo drunk the night b4 that he couldnt speak) took us on a hike up one of the local hills, omg did i sweat!!!

me and Eilidh hardly breaking a sweat half way up
kelly admiring the scenery, well thats what she said she was doing anyway
the view from the top, click on it to see it bigger, was well worth the climb
me at the top
kelly at the top!
me on the beach at pauanui....nice place
first bulmers of NZ, they have it in big plastic bottles, very classy
preparing breakfast in the sun, this is the actual life!!!
scrambled eggs on toast :)
ferry over to tairua
fishing!!! again, yipeeee
i caught 3 fish!!! this is a snapper
this is a john dory, its soooo ugly but very tasty! apparently its quite the prize catch, we caught 3 in total but i caught the biggest one :)
me and my prize catches, it is disgusting holding fish under their gills! blah
peter and all the john dory fish heads, he sucked every piece of edible thing out of their faces!! grosss
the hot activity in pauanui....mini golf!! i did shit!
Eilidh chopping up the cray fish peter went diving for on sunday
so we stopped of at kellys mums on sunday night then headed out on our trip on monday, we stopped off for lunch at tirau where they have a wierd facination with corrugated metal sculptures and signs, its a bit wierd!
then we went to rotorua and did the luge, it was ace!!!!! :) i wana do it again
ok, i think il leave it there for now, iv had a bottle o wine and feel like iv been doing this blog for days! gona move on with my life and deal with other internet issues like checking i actually have money left in my bank account

Sunday, April 18, 2010

almost 2 weeks!!

so i will have been here for 2 weeks on tue, seems like much longer for some reason, its ace, im lovin it. so since my last update i have been busy....mostly getting drunk. so before mick, nat and jen left rob took us on a wee tour of mt eden, get some great views from there, shame it wasnt the usual sunny weather

a big crater
view looking over to one tree hill
a sign warning you not to go into the crater
we went over to devonport and had the most amazing pie! and a few cakes, shame the gingerbread man had to get injured
a notice at the supermarket advertising some interesting services
we had a full fernie reunion, well as full as we could
we went for an indian, it was amazing!!! probably the best iv had




this is where im currently living, well the apartment behind this strip bar
k'rd, where chris stays, its a cool street, altho a bit crazy at the weekends
i found a street called edinburgh st, aw
i made some friends! and got drunk with them a lot, box of wine is a hostel dorm...good times

nice beaver...........hat
nils and a random pole dancing
2 extremely sweaty drunk people

i also went to a rugby game, im not the biggest fan of rugby but it was lots of fun, we even painted our faces
we'r ready to go after our free beer
on the bus
playing bus rugby, 2 people have to compete to be the first to get to the front of the bus over all the seats while everyone in the seats try to stop them
me trying to look excited despite watching rugby and being hungover


the stadium was a bit of a construction site!

me testing the zooms on my camera, ooh la la
today me and rob went to the car market and picked me up a car, i got this fine looking station wagon from a german couple, took ages to find the right car for the right price but we got there in the end, thank god for rob cause i know less than nothing about cars! i then dorve over to his house and we gave it a good wash :)
anna stayed inside making cake
my cars mascot, while washing the car it just wouldnt get off it
me and my sweet ride, think there should be enough room in there for my board bag :)
so, im going to go and sort insurance for my car tomorrow and plan some travel plans for the next part of the adventure, oooh exciting!!