torsdag 11. mars 2010

Bungyjumping and liquid chocolate=)

So after a cold meting with Frans Josef, I left for Queenstown where i spent the next 4 nights.Queenstown was luckily much warmer, and extremly gorgous! The town is centred around a lake and surrounded by tall snowcovered mountains!An incredibly scenic place. I stayed at a lovel little place called Southern Laughter. The place was vry homey and decorated in funny pictures and quotes. The first day I spent exploring the town, it's not a hg place, but it's the advetour own of the world.So the next day I signed up for a bungy jump! The highst one in New Zealand, the third highest in the world! A mere 134m, 400 and somthing feeti think! So a few hours later I was takn to the middle of nowhere, up up up some mountains and there it was! A little shed dispnsed on two wires between two mountains above a river.To get to the platfor, ou were placed in a little wagon thing on the wire and sent over. Before thhis however, you were weighe and had to walk around with your weight displayed on our hand.Yes, travelling has forced me to eat a lot of pasta and cheap bread! So i wasn't pleased to hear the number. Anyway, they the suited you up in a harnas and led you to the platform.Here I had to wait and watch as one after one, peope jumped of and came up shaking with adrenalin. I was second last person to jump, so I had time to get even more freaked out, Im afraidof hights you know! So when my turn came up I asked them to put on a good tune as they straped the bungy coed to me. They cranked up "Highway to hell" by AC/DC and I instantly knew this would be amazing. However, I was shit scared(excuse my french) as they shuffled me to the edge of the platform and placed the rope down between my feet. From heon so thre things went reall quickly! The guy told meto look straight out and jump on his count, 3-2-1 and I dind't think, just jumped! I screamed my heart out and fell for 8,5 seconds before the rope caughet me and nudged me back up again, and then down and then up where I then had to pull a "Special cord" that released my feet, don't worry! I didn't die! This simply puts you in a sitting position, this was your head doesn't explode with all the blood rushingto it as ou're being pulled up. At this point my hands are shaking with arenalin! My heart was racing and I felt great! So as I'm pulled back on to the platform I ask to go again, it was so so amazing!The first time I had jumped out, hands out like a bird, but the second time the guy made me jump with me hands lodged in the straps behind my back, just to make it a bit more scary!It was just as scary and just as amazing the second time, and if I hadn't been broke I'd do it a hundred more times! One of the best experiences of my life, so glad i did it!After thet I was just on a high the rest of the day! And for the 3 following days, I had very sore abs! After an amazing time in Queenstown, I left my travelmate and fiend Fay, behind and left for Dunedin where I had another good experience-The Cadbury chocolate factory.During this tour you learned about hoe chocolate was made and about the history of the company. And at every stop we got a diffrent chocolate=) Also if yo answered corectly to any of the questions beeing askedyou got a piece of really good white chocolate. I only got to answer once cause this little plump old lady from Australia kept shouting the answeres and taking credit for answeres that several people had given at once!Not fair! ANyway, I must say it was quite facinating o know that, just a meter or so above my head different types of chocolate was flowing freely in colorful pipes, each color indicating a different flavour.At the end we were taken in to one of the big tanks where a chocolate waterfall had been made. Sorry, it was nothing liek willywonka's =( I can't quite describe it. it wasn't on when we entreed, but when the guide pressed a button,a hatch in the sceling opened and one ton of chocolate pored down into several tracts or something. we had been warned that it splashed and had all moved to the walls. The chocolate splached all over the railing and the sides of the stairs.We were later told that this waterfall was not in use outher then in tour, it had een tested 2 days before the factory opened and the managers and all the big men had all come to supervise, and all of them had been drenched! YUM!Anyway, they reuse the chocolate, and only clean the thing every 6 months! ANyway the very last chocolate we got was a shotglass with liquid chocolate! SO GOOD!!! I left with ten chocolate bars and a big grin on my face.
The next day I headed for Lake tekapo, a gourgs tiny place! The lake itself is a mixture of green and blue, so pretty.Surrounded my mountains covered in mist! The place contains of one tiny street, so I didn't do much.However, I've gotten a cold so was up for much anyway! Watched braveheart and I think I'll be visiting Scotland this summer if anyone want's to join!

Today I spent wandering around Christchurch, and I now know how my mum feels about directions. I was completely lost, didn't know where I was or where I should go..Wierd...
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