All Over, New Zealand (Kelly)
I am posting these right out of my journal so you are getting my
thoughts on a daily basis!
1/20/02
Jayne, Robert, Phill, and myself went to a pub on the evening of the
19th and planned out the next two weeks of our trip. Don't ask me
what we are doing, I didn't really have anything to do with the
planning process. We rented a car and I do know right now we are
headed for a town called Rotorua which are famous for their thermal
waters, geysers, and mud pools! We are spending approximately 4
nights in the North Island and then taking a ferry across to the
South Island to spend the remainder of our trip there (NZ of course.)
On our way to the Kiwi Paka YHA Hostel we stopped at a ZORB park in
Rotorua. I had no idea what this was until I read about it. The
Zorb looks like a giant golf ball that literally rolls down a huge
hill while you are inside of it. There are two different Zorbs you
can do...a harnessed Zorb where the zorbanaut is safetly harnessed
inside before being sent downhill rolling head over heals or the
hydro zorb. This is the "wash cycle." 1-3 people are inside the
Zorb, no harness, with a bucket of warm water. You just run, flip,
slip, and somersault your way down the hill. Jayne and I signed up
for "hydro-zorb." Boy was this one a scream! Infact, Nickalodeon
was there setting up to film the next day.