This weekend our friends Emma and Johan (from Sweden) came to visit us. They have been traveling for about 3 months now and have been in New Zealand for the last 2 weeks, their trips have taken them from Sweden to South Africa, East coast of Australia and now New Zealand, with Fiji, the cook islands and LA still to come (REALLY REALLY jealous, wish I could have 4 months off to travel)
They arrived on Friday afternoon after Gemma picked them up from Auckland and took them to Raglan for the day, unfortunately it rained in Raglan but was sunny in Hamilton so maybe they should have avoided the beach. Work was really really busy that day for me so I didn't get off until 6, however, it was nice getting home and seeing them before heading out to the rugby. After putting the barbeque on and getting changed into my new Chiefs top I got a phone call from work asking me to come back into help out, at that point I got on the phone to my boss and explained the situation who very kindly let me off so we headed out to the rugby guiltily!
The rugby was really good atmosphere and Emma and Johan enjoyed it despite not knowing any of the rules, after the rugby we went back to ours to wait for Si to finish work. That night we just spent the evening chatting and catching up.
Saturday we got up early to head over to Rotorua for the day for some tourist stuff for Emma and Johan, went to Wai-O-Tapu thermal wonderland which was a really good geothermal park with bubbling hot pools, geysers and champagne pools, so so cool. After that we went and hunted out some natural hot pools. Found some in a secluded river where ther was a whole river that was thermally heated with a small swimming area and waterfall. Big one on the recommended itinerary for visitors. Next on the list was zorbing and swooping, which as usual provided great entertainment. That evening we headed out for a lovely meal followed by bowling, followed by few drinkies at home with the wii then eventually headed into town, to end our night very drunkely at around 4am.
Sunday saw the king of all hangovers - when I got up at 10 I swear I was still really pissed, then the hangover hit. Decided the best way to try and cure this was to head to the beach. Weather was lovely and surf was average but my hangover was cured.
On the way home from Raglan we stopped by at an art gallery and the owner was nice enough to give Emma and Johan and me and Si a free art print. That evening we had a nice meal on the BBQ and settled down to a movie.
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