Fillin' in the blanks...

Well, I'm on my last night at the Skotel Alpine Hotel, the highest hotel in New Zealand.  I think.  I head out tomorrow to go to the Coromandel Peninsula for some beach time with Max, Jas, Sam, and Lou.

BUT - I owe you guys lots of fill ins from what I've been doing and haven't been blogging about recently!

When I left you last (last major update)  I had attempted to jog your 'get-out-and-go' enthusiasm by talking about what I had been doing and all the crazy things that we all had planned and everything we were doing.  All of that still applies.  I promise to just give you updates this time.

I had just finished a dodgeball tournament with the guys (and gals) I worked with and then we just continued working.  Unfortunately, we kept working for the mountain and the mountain quit doing any work for us.  It took weeks for it to snow again.  So, to pass the time, Treat came to visit me!

Pictures here - of my whole trip. Enjoy. It's from my whole trip, mind the ones you've already seen and skip ahead.

Treat came to visit and we partied it up in National Park.  We drank in the hot tub.  For 8 hours.  It was amazing.  Honestly, we had a blast.  We had such a blast we missed our bus.  The next morning.  Ok it was the next afternoon but cut us some slack.

We caught the bus the day after we were supposed to leave and took it down to Wellington.  We got there late at night and the drinking commenced immediately.  We hit up a few bars and thanks to Treat, I remember about half of it.

The next morning we were out seeing the city, walking around and ultimately going to a soccer game of the Wellington Phoenix!  We walked in at minute 5 right behind the opposing team's net to see the Phoenix score immediately!  We sat through the next 85 minutes of game-time watching the Phoenix hooligans rile up the opposing team and gawking at how bad the officiating was.  One of the highlights of the game was the goalie pulled a dirty move and got away with it, much to the dismay of the Phoenix fans, and so once the keeper touched the ball at all the entire stadium "Boo'ed" him.  Epic times.  The Phoenix won, 2-nil.

We enjoyed the sights of the city and especially the food.  Sushi, thai, indian.  But most of all, we enjoyed our days off.  It was, most of all, Treat's vacation so we did anything he wanted to do and that usually happened to be what I wanted to do as well.  We saw two movies in theaters (something nice for both of us).  We also got to see Weta workshops.  Weta is the company that is responsible for pretty much of all of the animation, design, and effects for Lord of the Rings, King Kong, and multitudes of other movies.  While we didn't get to see inside the workshop we got to see tons of stuff from the movies (not just LotR) and a cool video highlighting everything they've done and the evolution of their company.

That more or less wrapped up what happened in Welly.  I'm not going to disclose many of the shenanigans that went down for the sake of the well-being dignity of many of those involved.  Needless to say, fun was had by many an early-20's somethings.

More to come later.  That's just the first update.

Kev