Our Time At Tui

Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013

“Rotorua Whirlwind“

Today was an activity filled day starting with delicious chocolate chip pancakes made by Jenny-Lynn and then Travis got a violin lesson from a 6 year old.  It was pretty funny to watch! 

Gibby teaching Travis how to play violin.

 Then it was off to Town to roll down a hill in a big ball full of water! Up, it was ZORB time!  Travis and I did the water one on a zig-zag track and it was super disorienting, but over all pretty fun!  Then I did the harness one, so it tumbled head over heals and it was really quite sweet.  Def something I’d like to see at WBC in the future!

Chilling on the chairlift up at the luge

 Next was we were off to the gondola and luge, which was also super fun and I want to see a luge at WBC!  We raced down 3 times and were on 2 wheels way too often, but it was super sweet!

Rotorua lake from on the gondola

  We made a quick pit stop at the local park to see the boiling mud that makes Rotorua famous (along with the rotten egg sulfur smell) and then we did some thrift store shopping!  Sadly I didn’t find anything worth buying, but there were some pretty crazy shirts there.

I totally remember this Aussie show from when I was a kid

In case you didn't know...

Well are you?

 Lastly was some grocery shopping and then we headed back to camp for a relaxed time of biking a bunch of the trails at camp and chilling in the dining hall.


Thursday, Jan 31, 2013

“Cabin Fever”

Today was the first time in 2 weeks that we could actually sleep in with nothing planned that we had to get up for.  Once I finally woke up I went for a 6k run (I’m gonna miss this weather when I get home) and then went on a random shopping trip with Cesh.  

Shopping with Cesh!

I really like doing the “real life” things like shopping so it was super fun, and Cesh is great, so we chatted it up as we picked up a bunch of stuff for the camp.  We made plans to go swimming later on in the day, so once we returned to camp we went back to our regular spot on our deck and waited…and waited…and waited.  

Oops

And we got a little restless, which resulted in an iphone throwing contest (I won), sword fighting with kitchen knives, and pots and pans ping pong in our kitchen.  Needless to say we had fun!

After waiting and making supper we decided to go to the gym to workout and after a solid (5 minute) workout, it was finally time to to swimming!  Well, not so much swimming as jumping…on a bridge…into moderately shallow water!  Videos will be posted when i have move consistant internet...but it's pretty sweet stuff!

Don't think, just do! 

Afterward we played a boisterous game of NZ edition monopoly, and checked out the glowworms on the way back home.  All in all quite a fantastic day!  

Still seeing smiles because we just started, that changed later.