Saturday, January 12, 2008

Relaxing?

So, here we are, 48 hours (and a bit) since leaving our house and the Hutt for our final NZ adventure.
We haven't quite worked out being relaxed yet. Husbink has (until about twenty minutes ago) been having to sort out the whole applications nightmare. This involved several hours at church (using their printer, scanner, internet...) before leaving home, more phone calls to Husbink's parents in the last week than in the previous six months, various times of being on the internet when we should be enjoying the country and a general sense of not having quite managed to chill out yet.
Anyway. It is done now. Five applications. Five deaneries. Five possible jobs. We shall see. And now, we can start thinking about this holiday of ours.
We spent a chilly night in Wanganui (we picked a picturesque but stooopid place to pitch our tent - lovely lake views...wind tunnel!) on Thursday which got us a few hours from home. Friday we made our way to Waitomo which is where we are now. You are meant to do all kinds of crazy activities in Waitomo, based around the various caves and the like. You are meant to abseil and climb and cave and black water raft and and and. We have not and are not going to. Which is kind of a shame - Husbink couldn't do it because of the injured foot (not sure if I've mentioned that at all) but even if he had been able to, I'm not sure I had the oooooooomph for it.
Instead, we are taking the easy route. This morning we went to a cave and looked at stalactites and stalagmites and say oooh a lot, as you are meant to. We also did a wee bush walk that was also very "ooh".
This afternoon, we go to discover the glowworms in their cave and then, after that, we shall try to see some in the bush tonight once it has gotten dark enough. All good stuff.
Hopefully, we shall also find some calm in the next few hours. And start to realise that we are on holiday. And that life is indeed good.

3 comments:

Rosanna said...

OOO, glow worms! I have never seen one. Do they really look like fireflies in the sky?

Enjoy the last of your NZ adventure - lap up every moment of that delicious scenery.

If you say Gandolf, say hello from me wont you?

AdventuringJen said...

They are very cool!
Kind of like fireflies but more disorientating - i guess because they stay still so you are looking at walls of them but it feels like you are looking at starry skies!
Will send your regards to Gandalf!
:)

Ellie said...

I did the toomoo toomoo toobing (or however it was spelt) at Waitomo, that was fun :) wasn't game enough for the abseiling in caves though!
I recently found a whole load of my NZ photos, had forgotten how beautiful it was, trust me to be marrying an aussie not a kiwi *rolls eyes*
:)