i hope that everyone had a good christmas, we had a nice relaxing one here. there were a number of people who came over to where i am staying (i am with a family here in rotorua with leah) and we had a barbecue. with lots and lots of desserts. i have consumed about a year's worth of sugar in the last three days, i think.
rotorua has been good, i got here on saturday and i have been enjoying NOT living in a backpacker's for awhile. dave took leah and i out to blue and green lakes (which did not look very blue or green, it was too cloudy i guess), and lake tarawera. we also got to go to buried village for free which was nice because it was neat to see, but not worth money to see it. i feel like i read the same information about five hundred times, and there sure were a lot of glass bottles to look at. my glass bottle tolerance was pretty low.
i also got to see THE GOLDEN COMPASS yesterday. which is a whole nother post, i tell you. except a boring, nerdy one about how even with low expectations i was pretty disappointed. although if you ignored all the plot stuff with the book, it was a pretty good movie. i liked that they kept the part in about iorek taking the other bear's jaw off. it was just so beautiful. *sniff*
seriously though, i do have a whole list of things about this movie that i could go into, but i will spare you except to say, WHERE WAS THE HEAD OF STANISLAUS GRUMMAN?
tomorrow vicky, leah and i go to waitomo to go on a caving trip. we are paying a lot of money to go underground and look at some glow worms, but i get to abseil and go tubing WITH SOME EELS. super not looking forward to that part. and then on the day after that, whatever day it is, we go to gisborne for a couple of days, off to napier for new year's, and then will be our five-day hike around and up to the top of mt. taranaki. it should be fun, and i'm sure there will be lots of photos!
I am totally with you on the disappointment that was the Golden Compass movie. My gf and I decided that it's like the first few Harry Potters that just go from point to point. I wanted to see the head too. And wtf was with all the rearranging and switching?! Jerks. But the bear battle was pretty awesome as was all the daemon shifting with Pan.
ReplyDeleteI love you and I am glad to see you smiling! I will ask my mom about calling you sometime. I LOVE YOU! Oh, I said that already....
ReplyDeletehat: seriously! i think the rearranging got to me most, it seemed unnecessary. rawr.
ReplyDeleteerika: i miss you too! if you called, that would be so awesome. although, i really should call you too. i keep getting charge like nothing, i just keep forgetting to call when it is an okay time back home. :)
boo, you look so tan! wow! i have to ask my mom about calling you, too. 'cause i am still on her plan. although that may be changing this month...
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