Here's a little video my mate Ash put together of a day in the life of us snowbums :o)
August 18, 2010
August 17, 2010
just another weekend on the PLP....
My weekend started off with the lovely sound of Teresas voice with the accompaniment of musical thumps as she marched up the stairs and paced back and forth between Seamus and I's room. "Up stairs, time to get up! up stairs, time to get up! up stairs! time to get up!" and it slowly faded away...
This isn't unusual amongst the little house, as we are a very musical group.... sort of. Nor is it unusual for T to feel the need to wake everyone else up because the day has already started in her world.
I laid in bed for just a little bit longer, because bed is a wonderful place and then decided to check a few emails - one being from my mate KELLY MCBROOM! (who is currently in Queenstown training) stating she would be in town from approximately 12 pm - 2:30 pm, having lunch and wandering about, so if I was around, she suggested to meet up!! yay! However one slight problem.. she is phoneless.. so I got out of bed, and decided to head downtown to have a wander and hope for the best.
Mission successful! Ran into her within 10 min of walking around and we had a exciting little reunion!!
Next: met up with Stikki(mates Steph&Nikki), and 2 of their friends and decided to go on an adventure walk - always an exciting time! We followed a goat trail (that even smelled like goats, apparently) up the backside of Queenstown Hill through bushes, over logs, under trees, around (and through) prickle bushes, across streams until we finally made it to the top of the hill, where we sat in the "Basket of dreams" and overlooked Queenstown and it's beauty. (Basket of dreams is literally a giant copper bowl thing that looks like a nest of some sort, at the top of this hill where you go to dream...i guess..)
We then ate pasta and went to our buddies going away party, also an adventure within itself.
SUNDAY: was one extremely adventurous day... even more so than the previous (if you can believe that!)
It also started with T coming upstairs to wake us up - however a little less musical as the morning before. We all gathered downstairs for a nice morning cup of tea and thought about what kind of fun things we could get up to that day..... it wasn't until after Emma suggested we make an extreme obstacle course in our backyard that we thought "HEY!!! LETS TOTALLY BUILD AN EXTREME OBSTACLE COURSE IN OUR BACKYARD!!!" So for the next half hour we ran around thinking of sweet ideas and obstacles we could do, and then got to work.
Minus a little break to the op shop where we purchased a 4$ push scooter and the worlds most amazing vintage lounge chair (tassels included) - we basically spent the day creating possibly the best most extreme course the PLP(our street) has ever seen.
6PM our guests arrived - and the adventure began. Once we completed the course we were all rewarded with a delicious roast dinner :)
..and that was just another weekend on the PLP.
What did you do this weekend?
This isn't unusual amongst the little house, as we are a very musical group.... sort of. Nor is it unusual for T to feel the need to wake everyone else up because the day has already started in her world.
I laid in bed for just a little bit longer, because bed is a wonderful place and then decided to check a few emails - one being from my mate KELLY MCBROOM! (who is currently in Queenstown training) stating she would be in town from approximately 12 pm - 2:30 pm, having lunch and wandering about, so if I was around, she suggested to meet up!! yay! However one slight problem.. she is phoneless.. so I got out of bed, and decided to head downtown to have a wander and hope for the best.
Mission successful! Ran into her within 10 min of walking around and we had a exciting little reunion!!
Next: met up with Stikki(mates Steph&Nikki), and 2 of their friends and decided to go on an adventure walk - always an exciting time! We followed a goat trail (that even smelled like goats, apparently) up the backside of Queenstown Hill through bushes, over logs, under trees, around (and through) prickle bushes, across streams until we finally made it to the top of the hill, where we sat in the "Basket of dreams" and overlooked Queenstown and it's beauty. (Basket of dreams is literally a giant copper bowl thing that looks like a nest of some sort, at the top of this hill where you go to dream...i guess..)
We then ate pasta and went to our buddies going away party, also an adventure within itself.
SUNDAY: was one extremely adventurous day... even more so than the previous (if you can believe that!)
It also started with T coming upstairs to wake us up - however a little less musical as the morning before. We all gathered downstairs for a nice morning cup of tea and thought about what kind of fun things we could get up to that day..... it wasn't until after Emma suggested we make an extreme obstacle course in our backyard that we thought "HEY!!! LETS TOTALLY BUILD AN EXTREME OBSTACLE COURSE IN OUR BACKYARD!!!" So for the next half hour we ran around thinking of sweet ideas and obstacles we could do, and then got to work.
Minus a little break to the op shop where we purchased a 4$ push scooter and the worlds most amazing vintage lounge chair (tassels included) - we basically spent the day creating possibly the best most extreme course the PLP(our street) has ever seen.
6PM our guests arrived - and the adventure began. Once we completed the course we were all rewarded with a delicious roast dinner :)
..and that was just another weekend on the PLP.
What did you do this weekend?
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| The Obstacle Course of Extreme Measures |
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| weaving through the trees of mysterious things |
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| over the wall of fire and under the dragons table |
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| up the stairs of horrible trips to eat 2 crackers and then attempt to whistle |
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| through the tunnle of death |
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| across the beam of insaneness WHILE trying not to drop the egg off the spoon |
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| over the teeter totter of terror after hula-ing the hulahoop of flames |
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| across the fence of unknown danger |
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| through the tires of extremeness and over the 2nd T.T.O.T |
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| and past the jump of great lengths to do the bike of doom |
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| climb the ladder of terrifying heights, to finish with 2 summersaults to towards the finish line! |
August 6, 2010
strep throat is oodles of fun!
Ahoy there! Just spent the past 3 days in bed - with none other than my lovely visitor strep throat. It likes to visit me quite often, usually on surprise. Went to bed just peachy tuesday night, and woke up at 3 am with massive ear ache and a tonsil the size of china. By the morning, it was purple and covered in puss and I was dead to the world! ohhhh the fun! Day two, both tonsils have taken over my entire throat and breathing gets trickier. Also keeping me company was a really awesome fever :) Thankfully I have real sweet friends who bought me ice cream and popsicles, and soup! Still havn't really managed to eat anything solid ... but I feel the drugs slowly kicking in so hopefully I can eat by tomorrow!
Other than that my week was going just fine! Monday Nikki Teresa and I went on an adventure to WANAKA! where we ate lunch, they taught me how to drive manual in a field, Nikki bought tennis rackets for 2$ from wastebusters(wanakas version of the reuseit center!) we discovered a pretty cool campground with a wicked bridge and then went to cromwell for some delicious frozen yogurt! yum! Cromwell, known for the biggest fruits you'll ever encounter! And Seamus made cookies the size of our heads.
I'll throw in some pics for your viewing pleasure, as dad would say.
Good news though, I am no longer contagious!
Hope you are all fabulous, have a lovely weekend :o)
Other than that my week was going just fine! Monday Nikki Teresa and I went on an adventure to WANAKA! where we ate lunch, they taught me how to drive manual in a field, Nikki bought tennis rackets for 2$ from wastebusters(wanakas version of the reuseit center!) we discovered a pretty cool campground with a wicked bridge and then went to cromwell for some delicious frozen yogurt! yum! Cromwell, known for the biggest fruits you'll ever encounter! And Seamus made cookies the size of our heads.
I'll throw in some pics for your viewing pleasure, as dad would say.
Good news though, I am no longer contagious!
Hope you are all fabulous, have a lovely weekend :o)
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| Adventure day |
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| Got up to 2nd gear! |
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| worlds biggest cookie! |
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| Dead Ants at the worlds biggest fruit! |
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| and a nice close up of my tonsils for all of you :o) YUMMM!! |
August 3, 2010
picture update of my life in july
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| pipe cleaner party! |
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| free face painting at Remarks! |
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| I'ts a tough life we live...picnicing at the top of the world! |
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The parents celebrate their 35th anniversary and my buddy Heather came down from Christchruch for a quick 24 hr visit! |
August 2, 2010
bloggo numero uno
Dear blog readers,
I want to welcome you to my first ever BLOG!! I thought maybe it was about time I start one of these thingers to keep all you keeners up to date with my ever so exciting life!!
Todays special occasion: none really, except that I've been in New Zealand for nearly 6 months! 6 months of awesome magical really really fun times!
a quick recap maybe?
Left wonderful Canada Feb 5th, arrived in glorious New Zealand on the 7th.
I spent 3 months travelling around this beautiful country - 2 and a half months on the North island; road trips, camping, sky diving, soaking up the sun and playing in the ocean.. and quick couple weeks down the west coast of the south island - swimming with wild dolphins and chillin with sea lions, taking in the amazing scenery and having a fun time with Jill!
3 weeks to AUSTRALIA to visit friends, and a wicked family vacay (mom and dad spent a month in aus, graham living in brisbane, and katie surprised us by coming over for 2 weeks!) so that was entertaining and nice to see them all :)
Back to NZ beg of May - found a place to live here in Queenstown with 3 fun kiwis and met back up with many of the ppl I met while adventuring around the country.
and here we are, August 2nd and I am still loving life - living, working and snowboarding heaps, and obviously picking up some kiwi lingo :o)
All is groovy, I hope you are all having a lovely summer (now that its maybe finally arrived?)
..and stay tuned for daily or weekly or lets hope not too monthly updates of what sort of adventures I find myself getting into!!!
(and here are some pics of the first 3 months travelling around!)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=204137&id=503223676&l=40d0072ea7
WEEEE!!
I want to welcome you to my first ever BLOG!! I thought maybe it was about time I start one of these thingers to keep all you keeners up to date with my ever so exciting life!!
Todays special occasion: none really, except that I've been in New Zealand for nearly 6 months! 6 months of awesome magical really really fun times!
a quick recap maybe?
Left wonderful Canada Feb 5th, arrived in glorious New Zealand on the 7th.
I spent 3 months travelling around this beautiful country - 2 and a half months on the North island; road trips, camping, sky diving, soaking up the sun and playing in the ocean.. and quick couple weeks down the west coast of the south island - swimming with wild dolphins and chillin with sea lions, taking in the amazing scenery and having a fun time with Jill!
3 weeks to AUSTRALIA to visit friends, and a wicked family vacay (mom and dad spent a month in aus, graham living in brisbane, and katie surprised us by coming over for 2 weeks!) so that was entertaining and nice to see them all :)
Back to NZ beg of May - found a place to live here in Queenstown with 3 fun kiwis and met back up with many of the ppl I met while adventuring around the country.
and here we are, August 2nd and I am still loving life - living, working and snowboarding heaps, and obviously picking up some kiwi lingo :o)
All is groovy, I hope you are all having a lovely summer (now that its maybe finally arrived?)
..and stay tuned for daily or weekly or lets hope not too monthly updates of what sort of adventures I find myself getting into!!!
(and here are some pics of the first 3 months travelling around!)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=204137&id=503223676&l=40d0072ea7
WEEEE!!
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