Taupo

Well today was a bit hit and miss as the weather was so awful! The plan was to see what the weather was doing and then if it was nice to do a bike ride upto Huka Falls! It was tipping it down, in fact it was so heavy it woke me up before my alarm did!

So I texted Kaye to find out what she wanted to do and we agreed on wandering around the shops! This lasted around 20 minutes when it started to bucket it down and we dived into a coffee shop and stayed there for coffee and muffins!

After chatting for ages over coffee we walked down to the beach where there were some amazing black swans! They had red beaks and seemed relatively tame! Some other people were feeding them bread and they were eating out of their hands!

We walked along the beach and found loads of pumice! Because the lake was formed by a volcano the bottom of the lake is pumice rock!

After walking a fair way along the beach we split up as Kaye had to book some accommodation for Xmas and it had started to rain again! I went back to the hostel and chilled out for a few hours chatting to some of the people there.

We met again for dinner and went to Hell Pizza! I had a Mordor which consists of Venison pepperoni, chicken, bacon, green pepper and cheese! We also shared wedges which were so nice we had to get a second helping!

Breakers surf bar again! I love the fact that they do long vodkas here even though you do have to say vodka, lemonade, lime and bitters everytime you order! We played pool for a couple of hours and I potted the black straight away before any other balls! The white ball kept going in as well! Maybe the table was tilted! We actually got chucked out! Well they were closing! We walked back along the road singing xmas songs (no we weren't drunk!)