luge rides

we have a new toy :D
One of our friends got a luge, for everyone who doesn't know what that is, it's llike a bob with wheels....http://www.skylineskyrides.co.nz/rotorua/ssr_luge/....pretty cool.
we went down napier hill on different roads yesterday...so much fun. I took the baby-route...but I had jake (a lil 5 year old boy on the luge with me...so no chance of goin fast or doin anythin risky...)
The best was jake and his parents coming over for a few drinks and stuff in the evening. They just put him to sleep in another room....and almost forgot him in the end :D They already left the house, went to their car...knock at the door 30seconds later..."can I just get my son...I forgot him" lol....couldn't stop laughin...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgvLpZLnVH0 here's a luge video...so much fun :D

Te Kuiti

Holidays....well, almost. I took this weekend off work and Chalky and me went to TeKuiti to visit his dad. Unfortunately I have quite a bit of study to do.(to be honest, I read Harry Potter instead ;) ) Today we went to Hamilton and visited the Zoo. Pretty cool, they had the "normal" zoo animals as well as an enclosure with typical kiwi landscape and birds.

The whole Zoo was absolutely amazing...the enclosoures were spacy and all the animals seemed to be well taken care off. We were even allowed to feed the giraffes :)




on our way back we stopped in taupo at the huka falls and I spend half an hour sitting in a natural hotpool at the river...had a waterfall giving me a backmassage and the water was sooooooooo nice and warm...It was a rivermouth, so I could feel how freezing the main river was, but that hot waterfall kept me nice and warm...absolutely amazing!