Arrival and Day 1 in New Zealand :
Flight over was cool watched rise of the planet of the apes.
The flight was emotional at first but I got over it. Flying in during sunset
was really cool, the clouds were very yellow. We missed the stop near our
hostel but oh well we walked a little bit. There isn an interesting feel to the
city but I can’t quite figure it out. It might be from how cold it is. About
mid 60s. walked down the main street, queen street. Or it seemed like the main
seat anyway, down to the wharf and just looked around. Gto some pictures of
some cool buildings. Got back to the hostel and went right to bed. There was a
little fiasco with two of the roommates, one guy was put in our room but was
supposed to be in another. But sure enough one bed hadn’t been “used” yet and
he climbed in. but the guy who originally claimed the bed hadn’t been around
and came in at 3am and they were
arguing about whose bed it was. The front desk made a mistake by putting the
one kid in the wrong room. I don’t care that they argued a bit, but it pissed
me off when the turned the fucking lights on. Whatever I guess. Got up early
and went down to catch the bus to paihia. Was a very scenic drive and was bout
3 ½ to 4 hours. Walked around paihia and do the haruru falls. That was cool. I
am enjoying this place a lot. The flora is very different. It’s almost like
another world. I love it
Well. The night certainly turned interesting. Brandon and I
headed back to the hostel and showered then went and got food. On our way back
I turn onto Kings Rd and
IMMEDIATELY I look across the street and see someone walking. This someone
looks verrrrry familiar. He looks like Patrick Vandivver. Sure enough I can’t
look away, I even told Brandon it
looks like him. He was also staring at me. Eventually I just stopped and was
like “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE,” because sure enough it was him. It was the
strangest thing to run into Pat, Tim, Tom, Harlan, Mary, and Shane. They were
headed to the bottleshop and we hung around with them and it was also Shane’s
bday so celebrated that with him. The night was a lot of fun with a lot of good
laughs, other than the fact that we couldn’t find Nick, he got off on King’s Rd
rather than in the middle of town. What made it worse was that we didn’t really
communicate where we were staying, he thought the YHA in town, but it wasn’t.
So we searched and gave up eventually because we didn’t know what else to do
(even called the YHA in Auckland ).
We just hoped that he would show up in the morning….haha….
Day 2
We decided to get up early and see the sunrise since we had
to leave at about 7:30am for the Cape
Reinga Bay
of Islands King St.
rather than in the little downtown area where Brandon and I stayed. I did feel
really bad about the whole thing. After that we got on the “Dune Rider” for our
day trip. First off, this thing was a badass bus. It’s like no bus you could
imagine. I will have a picture of that as well. The countryside along the way
was a lot of fun as well. We also learned a bit about the kaori trees. It is
all pretty interesting honestly. But boring for a blog.
We got up to Cape Reinga Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean ,
and you can actually see a division! It was so cool. The view from up top was
amazing and we had a clear day so you can only imagine. There is an awesome
legend about the place that I will try and find and put on the blog, hopefully
I will actually get off my lazy ass and do it.
We went to a sand dune to go sandboarding. It was…you
guessed it….awesome. It was maybe about half the size of towerhill in Michigan .
It was still a fucking hike up that thing. Went up it three times and my god,
by the middle of the third one my legs hurt sooooo bad. I decided to run up
that time and that was just a bad idea. Sandboarding was a lot of fun though,
you ended up going pretty fast and the sand was flying up behind you. One the
third run I tried to make it a good one. It’s pretty ironic I had a good
feeling about that one. On my way down I picked up speed, I also began to turn
sideways. I tried to turn myself around but to no avail. As I kept the speed up
and turned more to the side…I saw a little bump coming up. You can imagine what
happened next. I totally beefed it. The best fucking wipeout ever. I remember
rolling on my side and flipping and also standing up for a second but I was
going so fast I just fell again. Sand was EVERYWHERE. I could hear people saying
“Ohhhhhhhh” at the bottom of the hill. I did open my eyes for a second what I
“stood up” and I just saw sand everywhere and a blue sky for a split second
before I saw more sand and closed my eyes. It was a fucking tumble. I bet it was the coolest wipeout ever. I wish
I could have seen it from everyone.
After that we traveled down the Ninety-Mile
Beach
After that I got totally plastered. We went to the bottle
shop and bought a 12pack of Becks. It was actually pretty good, I liked it. I
drank 5 and Brandon had 4. I was
pretty tipsy and all about drinking more (wasn’t a good idea). I wanted to go
buy more but we decided we would just go to the bar. The bar was TINY, but then
again town itself isn’t very big. It was happy hour and all beer was only $4.50
for a pint! The happy hour ended in five minutes so….I bought two. I got Tui’s.
Which I think may be my favorite beer now. Wish I could find it in the states.
Anyway. We were all having a good time talking and what not and I ended up
getting two more pints of Tui’s. The bartender was awesome. Since happyhour was
over I asked her what the cheapest beer is. I am not sure what it was because
she said she would give me more Tui’s for only 6 bucks when originally I think
it was $7.50. So I was all sorts of excited getting the beer discounted! Let’s
recap. I weight about 130lbs. I drank 5 bottle and 4 pints of beer. I started
to black out by the end of the night. I don’t exactly remember everything.
Apparently when walking outside a security guard asked us to keep it down,
twice. I don’t remember this at all. I do remember making out with a girl from Minnesota ,
I don’t know how I managed to hook up with a girl. I also remember throwing up
in our hostels flowerbox….I also remember tripping and falling face first on
concrete (or something VERY hard) and my nose started to bleed. It’s weird
though, it almost seems like that was a dream because it is so fuzzy and I
can’t quite put it together…oh well. I DON’T remember going to bed….and I woke
up very dizzy. So it was quite an interesting night for me in quaint little
Paihia.
I definitely hit my face on something hard the night I drank
a lot…my nose is sore the next day. It’s weird though since I have NO scratches
today. Nothing at all.
Day 3
Wednesday….We had the tour of the Bay
of Islands 9am and I was so fucking dizzy and felt like shit when I
woke up. I guess that is what I get for drinking so oh well. We got onto the
boat and thankfully I didn’t get sea sick or anything. We had a clear sky
nearly the entire time and it was so nice out there. I can’t believe a place
like that exists. We went around the bay and every which was and new island was
just as spectacular as the last one. We went to the end of the bay where the
Hole in the Rock is. It’s a big arch in a rock and it is SWEET. It was actually
huge too. Stayed around there then we went off to a little place to dock and
walked around an island for about 45 minutes. First off, the water here is so
crystal clear and blue. I couldn’t get over it when we docked. I was just
baffled. I walked up to a look-out point on this island, and what was on the
other side took my breath away and took chills down my back. What was on the
other side is the picture I posted on Facebook on my wall. I only had about 10
minutes to look at it. It sucked. I wanted to stay there all day. Eventually I
got back on the boat and we got back to Paihia and we hung out with the
Canadians and the girl from Minnesota
till it was our time to leave. Then we got on the bus and went back to Auckland .
It was really sad leaving such a beautiful place. I am pretty pissed I only
have a week here. And it was already Wednesday night…
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