Um, yea....WE WENT SKYDIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crazy. I couldn't even mention it to anyone or write it here or in my written journal until after we actually got ourselves up there and did it. It was out of this world. I thought I would hate the free fall. You know, the 45 seconds of hurtling at the earth part! It was incredible. I felt bad because my Dad has always expressed an interest in going and I didn't want my one and only time to not be with him, but, guess what, I'm totally game to go again with him (maybe out in Seattle before Rainier, Dad?). I got a little motion sickness in the final part because you have to spin a few times to get the landing right, but it wasn't too bad. For some reason I couldn't find my Dramamine before we left. Ah well. But yea, we went skydiving!!!! We went over the largest lake in NZ- Lake Taupo and in the distance were mountains including the mountain that was used for Mt. Doom in Lord of the Rings. That park is where we're doing a 12 mile hike tomorrow morning. Pick-up time is 5:40 am!
We started today in Waikomo where we took a beautiful walk through the woods as a group and got to see a little of the caves that we were in yesterday. Side note- Kate Gosselin and her brood are following us. They went from Brisbane to Auckland to Waikomo and were also in those caves within the past few days. Odd.
After the hike we drove on to Taupo and first stopped to see the Haku Falls. Absolutely beautiful! The water was this incredible bluish-green. Then we checked into our hostel (hopefully no late night mullet-donned townies tonight!), and got picked up to go SKYDIVING!!!
We jumped at 12,000 feet and opted to have a camera person jump with us so that we could get the full DVD. We will share with all who ask when we return :)
After skydiving we came back to the hostel and Mark somehow convinced me to rent mopeds. Oh my. I was a disaster at first, I lost control of the thing, went flying across the street and almost hit a parked car. Hmm...We realized that my blood sugar was probably at negative 1000 so we went and got something to eat and I did much better on the moped from then on. But yea, mopeds are still a little scary. I don't like the whole getting started thing still. We had a beautiful ride to the most incredible hot spring though! We are absolutely going back there after the hike tomorrow! It was a waterfall of hot water pouring into a river. The water was really hot. I loved it! Then we took the bikes up through botanical gardens and then down around the lake. It was really an awesome ride.
Ok, time for Mark to take a turn. More to come! :)
I WENT SKYDIVING IN NEW ZEALAND!!!!!!!!!!!
Crazy. I couldn't even mention it to anyone or write it here or in my written journal until after we actually got ourselves up there and did it. It was out of this world. I thought I would hate the free fall. You know, the 45 seconds of hurtling at the earth part! It was incredible. I felt bad because my Dad has always expressed an interest in going and I didn't want my one and only time to not be with him, but, guess what, I'm totally game to go again with him (maybe out in Seattle before Rainier, Dad?). I got a little motion sickness in the final part because you have to spin a few times to get the landing right, but it wasn't too bad. For some reason I couldn't find my Dramamine before we left. Ah well. But yea, we went skydiving!!!! We went over the largest lake in NZ- Lake Taupo and in the distance were mountains including the mountain that was used for Mt. Doom in Lord of the Rings. That park is where we're doing a 12 mile hike tomorrow morning. Pick-up time is 5:40 am!
We started today in Waikomo where we took a beautiful walk through the woods as a group and got to see a little of the caves that we were in yesterday. Side note- Kate Gosselin and her brood are following us. They went from Brisbane to Auckland to Waikomo and were also in those caves within the past few days. Odd.
After the hike we drove on to Taupo and first stopped to see the Haku Falls. Absolutely beautiful! The water was this incredible bluish-green. Then we checked into our hostel (hopefully no late night mullet-donned townies tonight!), and got picked up to go SKYDIVING!!!
We jumped at 12,000 feet and opted to have a camera person jump with us so that we could get the full DVD. We will share with all who ask when we return :)
After skydiving we came back to the hostel and Mark somehow convinced me to rent mopeds. Oh my. I was a disaster at first, I lost control of the thing, went flying across the street and almost hit a parked car. Hmm...We realized that my blood sugar was probably at negative 1000 so we went and got something to eat and I did much better on the moped from then on. But yea, mopeds are still a little scary. I don't like the whole getting started thing still. We had a beautiful ride to the most incredible hot spring though! We are absolutely going back there after the hike tomorrow! It was a waterfall of hot water pouring into a river. The water was really hot. I loved it! Then we took the bikes up through botanical gardens and then down around the lake. It was really an awesome ride.
Ok, time for Mark to take a turn. More to come! :)
I WENT SKYDIVING IN NEW ZEALAND!!!!!!!!!!!
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