My
roommates came home on Tuesday night and I was passed out. I remember having a
briefish conversation with them, but I don’t really know what was said. I
wouldn’t be able to tell you any of their names, for sure. They seemed nice
though.
On
Wednesday morning, I met up with my tour group for breakfast. It felt kind of
awkward because I just wandered in, grabbed some food, and sat down at a table
with two girls and this guy. Everyone kind of seemed to know each other already
because of the dinner the night before. I later found out though that some of
the group has been together for ten days already though. Apparently,, the tour
that goes all around New Zealand is also this tour, they just meet up along the
way. The only other new guy person who joined up in Wellington was the guy I
sat with at breakfast, named Sebastion. It’s funny that I sat down next to him
by complete chance. Everyone seems to think we came together though now.
After
breakfast, we all got on the bus and headed to Lake Taupo, which was about a
five hours drive from Wellington. Along the way, we stopped at a small café
called Flat Hills and I picked up a mother. My jet lag was really not helped by
my roommates coming home and waking me up, not that I blame them. I did go to
bed at 8pm. Behind the café, there was a few corrals with sheep. I also found a
baby duckling that looked injured, which was kind of sad. It’s really hilly
here and I realized that parts of the
hills look like trees were clear cut from them because they just kind of
stop growing in a straight line. I’m not sure why it’s like that, but I feel
like it doesn’t have to do with clear cutting, so there must be a reason.
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| Sheepy in Flat Hills |
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| On the drive to Taupo |
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| Beautiful mountains :) |
When
we finally got to Taupo, I went straight to the Lake Taupo bungy jump with a
few others from the group. The adrenaline was pumping through me long before I
took the jump over the river, but I was surprisingly not that nervous. Everyone
thought I was nervous though because I wasn’t really talking much. To be fair
though, I didn’t feel like I knew any of them. I didn’t touch the water when I
jumped because I didn’t want to get wet. It was pretty thrilling though.
Jumping straight down wasn’t bad, but the bouncing around after was kind of
annoying because I felt like I was going backwards. It also didn’t help that I
couldn’t see because my glasses weren’t on. I’m surprised by how easily it was
to force myself off the jumping point into the open air. I bought a video of my
jump too. Everyone thought I was pretty frozen while I jumped, but I don’t
really know what else I was supposed to do. What, am I supposed to wiggle
around or something? I would love to go bungy jumping again though, it was
really fun.
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| The jump site |
After everyone had jumped, we got a ride from
the company back into town and went shopping for our cross dressing costumes
for the boat party that night. I lucked out and didn’t need to buy anything
because I was able to borrow a tie and beanie and put my hair up in it. Someone
donated a mustache to me too, even though I was just going to draw one on. We
had dinner on the boat, but it wasn’t very good. It felt like it was just
thrown together, which was kind of disappointing since the cruise cost $69.
