Kel and I woke up on Saturday morning to start our road trip of the North Island!
Zach, our friend from High school, and his friend Stu from down here came to pick us up in Wellington and off we went!
It was Zach's birthday and we headed North for Lake Taupo. Once we got into town we checked in at the Visitors Center and Kel had been thinking of skydiving, which this was the place to do so. The info center guy had the best place in town as soon as her and Zach mentioned this, and hooked them up with a reservation!! About an hour later Kelly was JUMPING OUT OF A PLANE!!!! She's nuts. She jumped from 12,000 feet that consisted of a 45 second freefall... Yikes!! Zach went along as well and they both said it was amazing and they would definitely do it again!
We headed back into the City and got our set up for the evening... a classy little Motel/Camping set up... turned out to be around $12 a night for each of us. And came the very great inside joke of "We don't need that much space". It's one of those ya had to be there moments, but I'm writing it on here so Kel and I don't forget about it down the road.
We got ready for the night and walked down into the City center. We got quite a few coupons for dinner and drinks from the Sky Diving place and used them all up that evening! As we were getting into town though I noticed that my wallet wasn't in my pocket anymore.... damnit!! Very typical for myself though. We wondered back and couldn't find it in the pitch black, so decided to carry on with our evening and look again in the morning.
The night was VERY fun. We got to celebrate Zach's birthday and had a few other interesting things happen from the walk home (or just Kelly and Zach getting lost along the way and Stu and I beating them home in a cab but then being locked out of the room... thats another story though).
Everything went smoothly for that first leg of the trip... aside from the whole losing the wallet debacle....
A gorgeous sunset view over Lake Taupo - courtesy of Kelly Stovin
Kel being OH so excited for landing safely on the ground.
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