Blonde Babblings

there is the glacier and rainforest beside it...

how gorgeous is that? there are only 3 glaciers in THE WORLD that are so unique liek this one i climbed around on.... it is because it has a rainforest on either side of it... ooo another cool thing, it is actually getting bigger each year. neato. i should work at science world.

yvonne and i... we are glacier climbers :)

ahh sweet.

who's a geek? ooo i am! (haha look at those wooly socks!)

i love this photo... this is my german friend and she is the one who gave me all these glacier shots. (my camera was broke remember?)

i have an ice pick :)

here is a big kiwi with a stick up it's bum.

wooot woot i am riding an emu!

the after shot.

and here i am with my mouth open and scream of fun pouring out

this was a sweet jet boat ride i went on in a man made pond. they got up to 100 km or something

some pretty fleurs.

the emu and i.... this thing freaked the heck out of me no kidding. it made these weird throat sounds and i swore was going to peck out my eyes... plus we fed it some sort of sugary cereal that we always munched on int he bus (courtesy of our aussi brynn.)

this was our gumboot throwing contest. this is a huge event that the town has each year but we were just doing it for fun.... haha good times.

here i am trying to make the gumboot look sexy or as dave put it, "sexing up the boot"

me and dave and one big ass carrot.

this is the waterfall in lord of the rings where gollum was cleaing his fish in. remember that?

eating lunch with a gorgeous view!

beautiful blue lakes in the middle of our trek.

it was supposed to be the YMCA but it turned into the YACA instead. good old yacka.

the group that went on the full day trek.

dancing on the tables in taupo. It was perfectly normal and heaps of fun... sorry it's a bit blurry.

the start of our (supposed) 6 hour hike near Whakapapa.

SOOPA LOO!!!

Gooodbyes to dome of the "family" in Taupo. drinks and dancing....

Dave and I (the vancouverites) pretending to be japanese tourists.

all the family at rotorua's mud pools.

more Poi dances. but their strings were much longer and they were WAY better.

the guys got to learn to fight but we got to learn to dance

Monica and I getting involved in the cultural night performance. Here we are going through tests to see if we can be the chief's new bride

My Stray family all trying to do a scary maori face. haha... i think we look hilarious.

yummm all my hungi food!

cutest little maori girl ever who stole my shoes and sucked on my jade necklace.

the guys doing the Haka. okay, there performance was better than ours...

This is Slim... yes, i dont know why either.

at Slim's cultural night in Rotorua. I am learning a Poi dance to the tune of "my girl"

first of all i think i am so brown i have chgned nationalities, secondly, i am a cat, thirdly i am a cat because i smeared waitomo cave mud on my face. (it is supposed to be good for your skin...)

Tumu tumu toobing in waitomo caves. (it's like a tounge twister...) heaps of fun! i even got to lead teh group throught the caves for a bit... oh and i started the group song of lean on me while we all floated down cave rivers linked together and looking up at millions of glow worms. aww how romantic.

raglan locals. Sam (in the orange) who i met through one of the surf instructers and he gave me a free lesson the following day...then Tom in the middle who works at the surf school and is barrels of laughs. last is emma who works at the logde where i stayed.

Here is my new stray bus... i eventually had to leve raglan and continue on my trip. can you find my blonde head?

Here some people are doing a maori dance at the hostel.... i got to enjoy my very first hungi (pronouned: hung-ee) oh so good.

the ladies and I hanging round the lodge in raglan.

One of my all-time fave fotos. here is how this happened.... i was taking a photo of the planbt thingys and then my camera jammed (it's film) so i took another photo. what ended up was some double exposure action and it looks freakin cool. :)

RAGLAN! such a fun surfers town... here is where i learned to surf... thanks to my lesson/board/wetsuit from sam mathers. woot!

At hot water beach in Hahei (ont eh coromandel peninsula). here you are supposed to be able to dig a hope and lie in the hot water beneath the sand. All we were able to do was mush our feet in and feel the hot water burning our toes.

after the sun rose

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