another quickie post

[dancingyel]

hi again! just wanted to do another excited update...david and i are in a town called rotorua (which we're leaving tomorrow, but no matter) and so far, over the last 2 days, we've visited a maori village with geysers and mud pools, seen a maori cultural show, gotten massages at a sulhpur spa thing, zorbed (rolled down a hill in a giant plastic ball), seen a sheep show with 19 breeds of sheep, and toured a working organic farm. so much fun! and the day before rotorua, we visited matamata, where the hobbiton section of lord of the rings was filmed.

tomorrow, on to tongariro national forest, which was mordor in lord of the rings. weee!!!

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[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

yeah, it was so wet and foggy all through the day, and the drive out of the national park was a mess. still, it was very appropriately mordor-ish weather, so we definitely got the feel of it. and then were glad to get back to our room with heat and hot showers.

zorbing is much fun! i wish we had something like that in san francisco!

where are you guys now? we're in wellington 'till saturday morning, and then we fly home.

[stellae.livejournal.com]

Wellington, but we fly to queenstown first thing in the morning.

My dad and I drove out to Martinborough to go wine tasting today and stopped to see Rivendell at Kaitoke Regional Park on the way back. :-)

We should see if we can get any of our engineer friends to build zorbs... there are plenty of grassy hills around...