NZ trip pt II
day 4 - mon 13/12
oh ya... forgot to mention, the day before i.e. on sunday after the museum, we headed into the "city centre" to check out the information office. that's 1 thing i really like about NZ. the government goes all out to make the country a tourist friendly place. just about every medium sized to big town there has an information office where tourists can go to find out about what there is to do in the area and where they can stay. the offices are called "i" for information "site". pronounced as "eyesight". anyways whilst we were there, dad collected every brochure that was on the brochure stand that advertised activities we might do and passed them on to me to review. i came across two for bungy jumping and was thinking "why the hell is he passing me this? not like they are gonna let me do it". well... i guess the sulphur in the air must have gotten to their brains and they actually said that i could do it.
so getting back to the actual day, we drove down to the agrodome where they had this package deal thingy, where you can zorb, bungy jump and go on a jet boat. dad wasn't too impressed with the bungy jumping facility, coz it was basically a crane and it wasn't too scenic. and he sure as hell wasn't happy with the jet boat course, becourse it was a manmade small little thingy... not the natural sort like they have for the shotover jet in queenstown in south island. so my sis and i ended up only zorbing. extremely fun. when i saw the guy before me going, i thought the course looked damn short.. it was about 30-45 seconds long. after i went though, i realised why it was only that long. i think if it had been longer, there might have been lots more people getting sick. iit feels like being tossed into a washing machine that rotates in ALL axes. good fun i must admit.
after zorbing, we made our way halfway to taupo for the jet boat ride, with rapids jet on the aratiatia rapids which is part of the waikato river. had many a "hamilton 360-degree" spin, which i guess looks like a car fishtailing. extremely wet fun. not THAT kinda wet you pervert!! i shall post pics of the jetboat ride sometime in the near future.
was gonna talk abt bungy jumping in this post, but i'm outta time, so i guess this instalment gets split into 2.
oh ya... forgot to mention, the day before i.e. on sunday after the museum, we headed into the "city centre" to check out the information office. that's 1 thing i really like about NZ. the government goes all out to make the country a tourist friendly place. just about every medium sized to big town there has an information office where tourists can go to find out about what there is to do in the area and where they can stay. the offices are called "i" for information "site". pronounced as "eyesight". anyways whilst we were there, dad collected every brochure that was on the brochure stand that advertised activities we might do and passed them on to me to review. i came across two for bungy jumping and was thinking "why the hell is he passing me this? not like they are gonna let me do it". well... i guess the sulphur in the air must have gotten to their brains and they actually said that i could do it.
so getting back to the actual day, we drove down to the agrodome where they had this package deal thingy, where you can zorb, bungy jump and go on a jet boat. dad wasn't too impressed with the bungy jumping facility, coz it was basically a crane and it wasn't too scenic. and he sure as hell wasn't happy with the jet boat course, becourse it was a manmade small little thingy... not the natural sort like they have for the shotover jet in queenstown in south island. so my sis and i ended up only zorbing. extremely fun. when i saw the guy before me going, i thought the course looked damn short.. it was about 30-45 seconds long. after i went though, i realised why it was only that long. i think if it had been longer, there might have been lots more people getting sick. iit feels like being tossed into a washing machine that rotates in ALL axes. good fun i must admit.
after zorbing, we made our way halfway to taupo for the jet boat ride, with rapids jet on the aratiatia rapids which is part of the waikato river. had many a "hamilton 360-degree" spin, which i guess looks like a car fishtailing. extremely wet fun. not THAT kinda wet you pervert!! i shall post pics of the jetboat ride sometime in the near future.
was gonna talk abt bungy jumping in this post, but i'm outta time, so i guess this instalment gets split into 2.
