Birthday weekend

The weekend turned out to be the best birthday EVER!!
On the Friday afternoon 10 of us drove over to Rotorua to meet in an amazing huge holiday home. We went out for a good dinner in the pig and whistle before going back to the house to meet Gem, Bea and Bekha for some drinks, games and hot tub action. Saturday we got up nice and early to head to the river for river sledging (or so Gemma thought) however, we turned up much to her surprise at the skydive centre......HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMMA!
AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING...plus to add more to the experience, James Nesbitt did the skydive right before us, major star stuck.....LOVE HIM!

After the skydive we headed back into town for lunch before ACTUALLY going river sledging and guess who we bumped into again....James Nesbitt! River sledging was really cool, but actually quite scary really fast rapids with a big heavy sledge, several bruises and 1 black eye later (not mine) and we were all heaving our knackered bodies out the water. Good fun!!
Saturday night we were expecting a heavy one, but didnt have the energy so we just headed into town for a nice meal together (again, bumping into James Nesbitt - think he was stalking us!) before heading back to the house for more games.

Sunday we started our day with a nice brunch before heading up the gondola for some luging. Again, great fun, similar to go karting but down hill and basic brakes. After luging we headed to one of Rotorua's lakes for some chilling time and swimming before heading back to Hamilton