Missie has returned

Some of you may have noticed Missie's absence over the past view weeks, this is not because I don't love her, cos of course I do, but because she has been hanging out with Sus and going on adventures with him and Doffy.  She has been to every hut on the mountain as well as every peak, including the summit :)  Its a good thing she had the sense to befriend someone as active as Sus otherwise she would still be waiting for most the peaks and some of the huts.  Doffy has been nice enough to share the photos he has of Missie and Sus so that me, and therefore everyone, can enjoy seeing her adventures :)

Missie has now returned to hang with her big bro's Glenny and Fishy for a while.  I am pretty sure they will try to corrupt her but am not worried cos I know she can hold her own :)

Missie and Sus at some place when I was with them but this is the photo from pa so diff to mine hence the sharing lol

See long explanation above hehe

See above :)

Missie at Syme Hut (Sus is hiding behind her and Dof)

At Fanthams Peak

View of the coast from Fantoms Peak

They made it to the summit 

And the top of the Kaitake Ranges

Pouakai Summit didn't offer as gooda views though

At Lake Dive Hut

And the final hut, Waiaua Gorge Hut

Talk about confusing

If you have ever wondered how similar in looks the landscape in NZ and Ireland, Wales and Scotland is I can tell it is very very similar. All my photos have decided to mix themselves together and the South Island roadtrip I did with Bro is all mixed in with my Ireland pics. Atlst if he's in it I know for sure it's a NZ one hehe :) 

Semi Active Wknd

This past wknd I had a semi active/mostly lazy wknd. The mostly lazy was watching the v8s go badly round in circles, they crashed way too much to be considered good at it :) made the watching fun though :)

The semi active on Saturday was going for a wander along the Coastal Walkway from the Aquatic Centre to East End then up the Te Henui Walkway for a bit then back to our cars via iced coffees/chocolates with Mary. It was a lovely lil wander and great to be out and enjoying the limited sunshine. 

On Sunday mum and I walked in to meet dad on one of the walks on the mountain. We met him just over a swing bridge which was cool as meant we still got to cross it, if you have walked down all the steps before it (which you have to walk back up to get out that way) you deserve to get to walk over the bridge and go bounce, bounce, bouncey :)

Coastal Walkway wander

Mountain stroll

 

  

I is still around

Just thought I would let ya all know that I am still alive and kicking, not posted for a while cos not much has been happening that is exciting, just been doing what I do best which is having fun and chilling with Glenny :)

This past week has been a pretty busy week for me though, well relatively speaking.  I submitted my first lot of assignments and should have marks back in two weeks time so then I will know how I am going, its always a bit tricky before the first lot of marks I find as its hard to know if you are taking it all in how it is meant to be taken in etc.

I have also got myself a part time job, woot woot.  I am going back to the Parks Team at NPDC but not in the same role as I was in when I to Scotland.  Should be a good job to fit in around study and I know its a great team to be re-joining.

I also finished Hart of Dixie this week, its a tv show for those who do not know.  I watched season 3 and 4 this week, so so good.  It is the show that I learnt you can actually watch 14 hours straight of tv and your brain does not explode, in fact nothing actually happens cept you are pretty zombie-like the next day (I started after lunch lol).  The show solidified my belief that I need to go find me a cowboy, not necessarily a bull riding cowboy but a southern gentleman cowboy :) If I am rich when I finish study I am off on my search :)

Glenny and Fishy have also found how cool Nerf guns are and we have been having loads of fun and have had to hunt round bro's flat for the bullets a few times.  Glenny is a pretty decent teammate, believe it or not :)  and I found a way to make both him and Fishy look kinda smart, hehe bro put my glasses on them :) yes we are having fun :)

Today I also tried to lighten my hair using household ingredients, I tried that salt and water one cos it was handy and easy plus isn't meant to take ages like lemon juice does.  Good news is my hair didn't fall out, bad news is no lightening happened :( boo hair, not cool.

Other than some colouring in and a lil bit of sewing aint really been up to much else, well other than bugging bro but that is part of the lil sis job description so something I just gotta find time for :p hehe

And thats about it...
Till next time atlas :)

Crossword Answers

Hey all, hope you had fun with the crossword :) I know some of you had a few you couldn't get but hope you enjoyed the trying.  Aunty Pam has given me a great idea for another puzzle so that will coming in a few weeks time or so :)

Here are the answers to the crossword:
Across: 2. Spartacus, 3. Chevrolet, 6. Autumn, 7. Inglewood, 8. Applied Science, 11. Thirty One, 13. Isabella, 14. Three, 15. Library, 17. Edinburgh
Down: 1. Baddy Dofus, 3. Canada, 4. Tresna, 5. Missie, 9. Purple, 10. Glenny, 12. Celiac, 14. Taranaki, 16. Ruby

Napier, Rotorua and Mt Maunganui

On Friday morning I drove from Brudda's to Hamilton to pick up Salome as we were hanging out for the weekend.  For those of you who don't remember Salome was my flatmate in Edinburgh, she is over in NZ for a friends wedding and a holiday.  We headed off to Napier where we were planning to spend the night.  When we got to Napier though it turned out that all the accommodation was booked out, we went to the only hotel showing a vacancy sign but they only had one family room which had a minimum two night stay.  The lady was super helpful though and advised us that all the accommodation in Hawkes Bay was fully booked due to a horse event happening.  She doubled checked their system in case any had had last minute cancellations but none had.  We decided that we would spend the afternoon in Napier then drive to Rotorua for the weekend as Salome hadn't seen everything there she wanted to when she was with her friends.

It turned out that other than cool buildings there is not a lot to do in Napier anyhow.  We wandered round for a bit, had some lunch, wandered some more and then decided we were happy to head off again.  I would really like to go back as want to do Cape Kidnappers, as its a 5 hour return walking trip we didn't do it.  When we got back to Rotorua for the evening Spartz decided that it was a bit of a useless round trip in his opinion, as we were staying at the motel next to Brudda's Spartz was justified in his opinion.  I pointed out to him that he is now closer to reaching 200,000km's which he wouldn't have been had we not gone for that big trek and this helped his mood.

Sadly Saturday in Rotorua (as in much of the country) was very wet.  We were lucky and got about 1.5 hours of fine weather midday which we made the most of and went out to the lake, walked around it for a bit and then went to the Government Gardens.  We also went souvenir shopping for Salome.  It fined up a bit later on but as the ground was very wet (we discovered that on the walk we did when we had to dodge some puddles that were more lakes than puddles) we decided the other things on our list (like the Redwoods) would not be much fun.  Instead we enjoyed some Netflix and it was like old times when we lived together.

On Sunday we headed to Mount Maunganui, when we arrived it was pouring down so we sat in the car and waited.  After about 10mins our wait paid off and it fined up enough for us to get out and take photos of the beach and most of the mount.  We decided to risk going for a walk and headed off with fingers crossed and coats on.  Luckily the rain held off and we made it all the way around the mount without any rain, and it was when we were about 200m from Spartz that it started raining again so lunch was had in the car not on the beach.  Then we drove up to Waihi where Salome was meeting back up with her friends and I was continuing on my way.

Napier Waterfront

Napier Beach

Pacific Ocean

Some random park in Napier, very pretty though :)

Lake Rotorua

Missie learning to climb trees

Somewhere under here is the walking track

 Ghost Solider with just more water behind it than last time

Missie still making new friends

Gazebo in the Government Gardens

Me and Missie in the Gazebo

Most of Mount Maunganui in the background

The walk around it was still very pretty if rather cloudy

Mount Maunganui Harbour

Crossword time

So I made a crossword all about me :) cos I know that you have all been waiting for one even if you may not have realised it hehe :)

Answers will be posted in a few days time.

Good luck all :)

PS if it doesn't post very clear feel free to email me for a copy of it :)

Wanderings

Went for a wander with Bro this morning and got a couple cool pics so thought would share with ya :) we was doing the yellow trail in the Redwoods :)

 

View of Vegas from the lower lookout

 

Found me a trig :D

 

Hehe photo of Bro with trees, something new for him :p

 

Me and trees now :)

More Mountain Pics

Ystdy Dad and I did the Pouakai Circuit, mostly cos I'm an idiot and said hey lets do it going in the other direction, silly silly mistake on my part.  Did get to see a nice start to the sunrise before we set off though which was cool, the central mountains were looking very nice :)  The walk itself was hot and long and there were far too many steps both uphill and down, I came to the conclusion that tramping is an evil and barbaric form of torture and that it is bad parenting to let your kids do a walk like that, and yes I told dad that and he politely reminded me it was my idea in the first place (and here I was thinking he was getting old and forgetful lol).

Pretty sunrise, worth waking up for

Made it to the shelter and Missie was still in a good mood :)

Henry Peak

Dad at the Tarns, just taking his photo

Too windy for a reflection but still worth a photo :)