Sunday, August 8, 2010

One last Hurrah!

Day 18 – we are going home

A pile of smelly socks and wet towels remain unclaimed after our final clean up at The Seabreeze Holiday Park on our way out to Auckland Airport this Saturday morning.

About 4 kg of hot chips and 24 pieces of fish for lunch at Kairauo and we are off for the last leg of our journey.

Now we’ve all checked in and we’re having a coffee and a laugh about the great moments we’ve shared.

Stefan


Final pictures for your viewing pleasure


"Fush & Chups" - A New Zealand delicacy

The boys tucking in to their tucker

Finally coming home - checking in at Auckland Airport

Friday, August 6, 2010

Mitch's Space (part 3) + Photos

Day 17 (06-08-2010)

As our trip draws to close we enjoy a nice, peaceful day in the countryside with lunch at the beach and a lovely walk down to Cathedral Cove.
After ice creams courtesy of Stefan (thanks :D) we spent some time in Coromandel Town before returning to our lodge at Whenuakite for dinner, a "last-night-in-town" party and one last chance for Stefan to beat us at Doppelkopf.
All in all it's been a pretty fantastic trip, but I think we're all looking forward to returning to our families and our own beds.
See you tomorrow at the airport. We're arriving at 7:25pm on flight number EK-413 from Auckland.
Mitch (the Editor)


Start of the Cathedral Cave walk
Silhouettes in the cave
Sentinel on the shore
I asked for a single scoop...
"End-of-trip-party" ***One Hundredth Photo***

Meg's Space (part 3)

Second last day: checking in with Meg. My cabin was up before wakey wakey!! Then I had very nice cold porridge K . After breakfast we all got in our cosy buses and drove down the most windiest road in the whole entire world!! (Phil & Stefan drive on the right side of the road which is ironically the wrong side of the road) Anyway, we drove to Cathedral Cove for a nice uphill walk (hour & 10 mins in the heat.) To come across the most prettiest beach I’ve ever seen. Instead of the walk looping around, we had to do it all over again, only to get back in the hot stinky bus where Claire was sick to travel more (140ks all up) windy roads. We then went to some pointless town to spend money on pointless things. Anyway, we drove back, bus smelt bad, we slept, it was windy, took ages to get home, we had our last dinner together in New Zealand. Now to the good part J . Hehehe. We reflected on our favourite and our least favourite parts of the trips. Then confessions, the fun part. Many blah blah’s brought their phones, blah blah stole the lollypops, blah blah and blah blah went somewhere to get their blah blah’s blahed, blah did a nudie run almost everywhere we went, blah blah. Mitchell (the editor...) has Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Jesse McCartney & Backstreet Boys on his ipod, quite a few blah’s had blah to blah, and a lot of blah’s broke things including beds, mirrors, curtins & walls, no one was really surprised at any of the confessions tonight. And now we’re wrapping a successful trip up with a dance party, doppelkopf, packing our bags & sitting in a creepy room full of cows, no joke THEY’RE EVERYWHERE.

Pattsy is my favourite teacher of all time <3>

Nick smells.

Sarah is pretty.

There are 51 cows in this room alone, not including the hall or Imogen.

That was Nick Leatherland by the way, but Harrison….. Him too J

CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU MUM, TIN & JORDAN <3>


(editors note: class comment for the day "you made me fart..." - anonymous

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Hot and Cold Fusion

I've got an idea - let's dig a spa!
Where the cold ocean meets hot thermal springs

Damn! I lost the soap...

Stefan's Space (part 6)

Day 16
We make our way from the Volcanic Belt of Rotorua to the East Coast of Coromandel Penisula – winding roads through hills and dales with ferns and gullies making ham and cheese sandwiches for lunch at the black beaches of Waihi Beach.

Stefan

PS:Evening programs:
two nights ago: “The world fastest Indian”, - Anthony Hopkins impresses even the most speed conscious teenagers
one night ago: Doppelkopf - myself, Imogen, Matthew and Mitchell engaged in a hours long battle-of-wits over the card table
tonight : dig your own spa at Hot Water Beach under the stars of the Milky Way

Beyond Rotorua

Trash? or Treasure?
Hey kids, Don't do drugs!!!

Our mud-wrestling boys hanging out with Sarah (from Berlin)

Rotorua & Beyond

The Old Bath House at Rotorua
Goldilocks?
Lunch break on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula
Waihi beach cuddles

Waihi Beach walk