Man women can talk. At Taihape, Leigh and the lady that ran the thing chatted away for hours whilst I stood there, and later the woman’s husband stood there, waiting to ask a question. Sheesh.

Anyway, we drove up to Rotorua and went to see some more thermal stuff, then I went Zorbing which was awesome! Basically, zorbing is sticking you into a giant inflatable ball and rolling you down a hill. There was a straight track and a zig zag track.

I do the first one strapped into the ball and down the straight hill and the second and third in what they call the wash cycle, where you’re not strapped into anything and there’s a whole bunch of water thrown in there with you and I went down the zigzag track both times for those. Oh so much fun, you roll around and get thrown, it’s great.

Then we stayed the night and expected to leave the next day for Auckland after I went to a bone carving class, but I got to the class at 11am and spent the entire day there till about 5:15p. It’s really hard to carve these little things, but I got a nice carving out of it, complete with abilone settings. Pretty sweet as. And Leigh is not feeling so well, plus it’s raining so we decided to stay another night. Plus there’s two Swedish girls here with whom I talked in the spa last night so that’s a bit of motivation to stay as well.

Man I need to take some more pictures, I just realized I didn’t get one of the carving guy. My moods been a bit down lately cause Leigh and I have not been getting along. I have not yet mentioned it in my logs because I didn’t want to spoil it. But since about two and a half weeks into the trip, she decided she doesn’t like backpacking and we’ve been arguing a lot ever since. There’s a lot of details that I could go into but I won’t. I’ve been trying not to let her attitude affect me having a good time but as of about a week ago, I couldn’t take it anymore.

So the plan is to get to Auckland, I’ll give her $750 for the car cause she doesn’t want to deal with selling it anymore and then we’ll part ways. I’ll go north and then we’ll meet back on the plane. It sucks cause at the Tongariro Crossing, a really cool hike south of Taupo, normally I would’ve stayed the night to do it the next day, but she didn’t want to do it and really I just wanted to get to Auckland so that we could part. I think she feels the same.

Anyway, it sucks, but you live with it and move on. If you can’t live together, and can’t work it out, you go your seperate ways and that’s how it’s got to be. We’ll see.

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