Hey Everybody!
We went to the beach where Prince Caspian was filmed. It was absolutely amazing! Johnny achieved his childhood dream of going to Narnia. The beach was so white, and the water was a deep emerald. We explored a few caves and walked around the beach enjoying the sun and beautiful morning. Johnny and I were champions of an ultimate frisbee game, afterwards Johnny and Bobby just had to jump in the ocean. It is still way too cold for any sane person to jump in. Next we drove to Rotorua where there are famous hot springs. We soaked in hot pools (some almost 110 degrees) that over looked a lake, it was very relaxing. The next morning we accomplished a Kiwi classic, Zorbing. You basically get in a very large inflated ball and roll down a hill. The inner ball has water in it, which makes it more like a water slide. That night we went to a Maori (the native people of NZ) lodge for dinner and a show. We saw them paddling their war canoe, doing the famous war dance, the haka, as well as other traditional songs and dances, and ate a traditional honga (feast). The food was awesome and the haka was scary. Now we are in Hawke’s Bay looking for jobs, we’ll keep you updated.
Kia Ora, Maegen
Job Talk:
This will be kind of like car talk, but since Jordan has straightened out, the new drama in our lives is finding a job. So far our search has been very half-hearted. We ask the owner of the hostel if there is work, they say no, and we concede. On our way to Napier, Hawke’s Bay, we were shopping around Taupo and a nice woman told us to try Whakapapa Village for some possible work at a ski resort as the season is unusually long this year. Literally without a second thought we changed our plans completed for this wild goose chase. They ski on a volcano at this particular resort, Mt. Doom actually, and it is the North Island’s biggest resort. We stopped at a visitor’s center and they have the nerve to not offer us a job. They didn’t say there were none, they just said we would need to go to the lodge and see. The lodge was closed and there were no vacancies within 40 km, so yet again we threw in the towel and backtracked the hour to Taupo and the next day, our original destination of Napier. It was by far our longest distance we have traveled yet to not really look for a job.
Cheers, Johnny
We went to the beach where Prince Caspian was filmed. It was absolutely amazing! Johnny achieved his childhood dream of going to Narnia. The beach was so white, and the water was a deep emerald. We explored a few caves and walked around the beach enjoying the sun and beautiful morning. Johnny and I were champions of an ultimate frisbee game, afterwards Johnny and Bobby just had to jump in the ocean. It is still way too cold for any sane person to jump in. Next we drove to Rotorua where there are famous hot springs. We soaked in hot pools (some almost 110 degrees) that over looked a lake, it was very relaxing. The next morning we accomplished a Kiwi classic, Zorbing. You basically get in a very large inflated ball and roll down a hill. The inner ball has water in it, which makes it more like a water slide. That night we went to a Maori (the native people of NZ) lodge for dinner and a show. We saw them paddling their war canoe, doing the famous war dance, the haka, as well as other traditional songs and dances, and ate a traditional honga (feast). The food was awesome and the haka was scary. Now we are in Hawke’s Bay looking for jobs, we’ll keep you updated.
Kia Ora, Maegen
Job Talk:
This will be kind of like car talk, but since Jordan has straightened out, the new drama in our lives is finding a job. So far our search has been very half-hearted. We ask the owner of the hostel if there is work, they say no, and we concede. On our way to Napier, Hawke’s Bay, we were shopping around Taupo and a nice woman told us to try Whakapapa Village for some possible work at a ski resort as the season is unusually long this year. Literally without a second thought we changed our plans completed for this wild goose chase. They ski on a volcano at this particular resort, Mt. Doom actually, and it is the North Island’s biggest resort. We stopped at a visitor’s center and they have the nerve to not offer us a job. They didn’t say there were none, they just said we would need to go to the lodge and see. The lodge was closed and there were no vacancies within 40 km, so yet again we threw in the towel and backtracked the hour to Taupo and the next day, our original destination of Napier. It was by far our longest distance we have traveled yet to not really look for a job.
Cheers, Johnny
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