21-03-07Great nights kip last night, nice comfy bed a beer did the trick!
Went to Te Puia today for the Maori cultural centre, geysers and mud pools. All in all an interesting and enjoyable morning. We sat in on a short traditional Maori welcome meeting and concert, where they invited men to perform the Haka. I steered clear, after my last experience on stage in Malaysia I thought better of it! Deb was impressed by the mens tongues, one in particular got her attention, he managed to touch the bottom of his chin...;o)
It started to get a little hot during the morning and of course I'd forgot to bring my cap so I'm wandering round with a glowing head at the moment. Deb has caught the sun a little as well, with a nice red shoulder line.
We went along to the Skyline Skyrides in the afternoon. A quick trip up a cable car to the top of a hill, where you could then whizz down the hill in a wheeled luge. I did well to get Deb in the cable car, there was no way she was going in the luge though, it meant wearing a helmet! But I did catch her out later on when we decided to walk back down the hill. We got half way down and came to a dead end, the only way back was a steep walk or jumo onto an open ski-lift, the ones where your feet dangle. Deb jumped on without thinking then spent most of the trip back up with her eyes closed and hands gripping the safety bar tightly! I was well proud of her ;o)
We had a quick drive into town, where I managed to find a road that went down to the lake, not literally, but along the lake shore. There was plenty of bird wildlife about, so it was out with the camera and fired off a few shots. Deb then had great delight taking pictures of me taking pictures of things...;o(
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