Party animals

Thanks for all your suggestions! I think the triathalon idea is a good one that I can combine different sports to finally decide what I want to specialise in. Although one big issue is TIME ... story of my life ... there is never enough time to fit everything in.

Thursday morning I started to come right regarding my throat infection. Although my belly button piercing was starting to look a bit yucky ... a horrible infection had got in there. Think it was a sign of my body being run down. I went off to the doctor to get some antibiotics and only a day later it was looking much better. I really don't like taking antibiotics and only when I absolutely have to. But the thought of having to take my navel piercing out motivated me enough to get medical intervention. Lucky I did ... it's back to normal now.

Wednesday night Bill suprised me with the news of a two day getaway to Rotorua. Almost said I couldn't go because I was feeling so yuck. But Thursday morning (day of our departure) arrived and I was feeling well enough to go. We got away around lunchtime after giving endless instructions to our friend who was bravely looking after 4 kids for the time we're away.

We stopped off at a roadside cafe just out of Tauranga for lunch. Set in a beautiful garden surrounding with secada tunes filling the air. I ordered a grilled chicken salad with avacado and cajun dressing. Proud to say I asked for the dressing on the side and to be prepared as low fat as possible. Unfortunately they obviously don't know that pouring olive oil over the whole dish is NOT LOW FAT!! I compensated by only using the minute amount of dressing and giving half my avocado and some chicken to Bill. Devine meal but very hard to point.

Then it was off to Rotorua. We arrived around 3pm, booked into our hotel room.... wahoo I was spoilt ... Royal Lakeside Novotel!!! We then did a spot of shopping for a couple of hours. Picked myself up a pair of size 10 (wahoo!!!) pinstrip three quarter pants and suede slippons at half price (gotta love a bargain!!).

Went back to the Hotel to freshen up for dinner. An hour later I was finally ready (ok, ok I had a bad hair day alright? lol) We walked all the restaurant streets looking for the healthiest choice and finally settled on the Fat Dog and I chose the most devine meal I have ever tasted!!! The Venison Medallions ~ Tender venison served with a kumara mash plump green beans and balsamic marinated field mushrooms with a blueberry & red wine jus. YUM YUM YUMMMY!!! And I think a pretty healthy choice too!! Had one glass of white wine and I was quite within points for the day.

We walked past a few bars on the way back to see if anything exciting was happening ... not much. Figuring it was only 8.30pm by this time we stopped off for a game of pool. A couple of games later I was tired and tummy full ... I just wanted to head back to the room to bed!! Party pooper I know! lol ... Bill told me that ... all the way back to the room!! lol He convinced me to go down to the hotel bar for a couple of drinks first. Then somehow (not sure how) he coersed me into going back out on the town. Dragging my feet and yawning the whole way (old fart aren't I? lol) we jumped into a taxi and asked him to take us to the best nightlife in Rotorua. He dropped us off at the Pig and Whistle

We could hear good music coming out so off we went. There were a few people round but nothing major happening. I was sick of walking so told Bill I was planting myself there and NOT MOVING, too bad if it wasn't going off lol. Rotoruanites must be late night owls because come 11pm suddenly it went off!!! People came in and started dancing ... and after quite a few drinks I was finally ready to dance. lol ... okay, takes a while for me to get the courage up ... or should I say takes quite a bit of alcohol. Then we danced for the next hour and a half till they closed at 1am.

A group of us decided to go find somewhere else and there was a mention of the name Lava Bar ... wow that place just rocked!!!! It's been a few years since I felt that young ... and get this!!! I hugged the bouncer and told him I loved him on the way in because he wanted to see my ID!!! How cool is that!! lol ... the first time in like 10yrs that I've been asked for ID. I didn't have any on me so showed him my line of stretch marks on my belly ... this is four kids later and no one that young could have had four kids and this many stretch marks!!! He smiled and told me to go on in ... ya gotta love that!!!

By this stage I had counted up 40pts for the day!! whoops a little over (and yes I was still counting them lol) So figured I needed to do a little more dancing and a little less drinking. So that's what we did till 4am in the morning ... danced the night away and it was a night to remember!!!!

I was actually suprised to wake up without a hangover, mind you think the dancing and water drinking helped with that. 11am we finally checked out of the room and headed off to find the greasiest breakfast Bill could find!! lol (yes he was hungover) We ate another devine meal at Capers And I ordered the Buttermilk Pancakes with 2 Rashers of Bacon, Roasted Bananas and Maple Syrup served with Fresh Seasonal Fruit (maple syrup on the side and I left 1 of the 2 pancakes, deciding I'd had enough ... yay me!!)

Then it was off to get some exercise in ... after all I had 40pts to burn off!! lol ... well no ... had 7.5pts saved up and with the dancing/exercise I worked out it was actually only 4 or 5pts I needed to work off. Still I'm always in for a nice walk.

We started driving as the rain fell down. It got heavier and heavier and we almost changed our minds. 20mins drive south of Rotorua we found the Waimangu Volcanic Valley ... wow what a place!! Fascinating!! I'm glad we still decided to go because as we got there the rain cleared up and the sun even came out!

We went on a 2hr hike through all the volcanic areas ... amazing scenery!! Bill took this pic of me infront of an artificial looking but totally natural blue water pond ...

As we got back to the car the rain came down!! Talk about pefect timing! I well and truelly earnt my 4 or 5pts needed. After grabbing a quick salad roll for lunch we headed back home, more tired than when we left! lol but we had an absolute blast!!!

Catcha!
Lyn :)
SW 107.4kg
CW 70.6kg
WWGW 71kg
PGW 65 - 68kg