Yearly Archives: 2016

Hiking Mt. Holdsworth

Since coming to New Zealand I have really only completed one hike: The Tongariro Crossing in Tongariro National Park. I’ve been walking around Wellington, Snowboarding, Surfing, Paddle Boarding, Skydiving, Mountain Biking and Roller Skating, but not really completed any real hiking. I thought that this needed to be changed, so when James and his housemateContinueContinue reading “Hiking Mt. Holdsworth”

GirlGuide Camp: Titahi Bay

As part of being a New Zealand Girl Guide leader, we are supposed to take them camping regularly, both inside (camping on roll mats in a hall or hut and cooking in an actual kitchen) and outside (camping in tents and cooking outside). This year one of the other leaders, Meghan, decided to complete herContinueContinue reading “GirlGuide Camp: Titahi Bay”

Rock & Roll Weekender

When James and I first met, he mentioned that he was going to a few gigs down in Christchurch and Dunedin (Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath). I said that it sounded very cool and he asked if I wanted to come along too (I think he thought I was more into heavy metal than I am). Obviously IContinueContinue reading “Rock & Roll Weekender”

Easter Weekend

As we have a lovely long weekend here for Easter, James and I thought we’d get out and actually do something or some things. Get out of the house and be active… Good Friday After having a long lay in we decided to take a drive out past Wainuiomata and see what we could findContinueContinue reading “Easter Weekend”

#HallsOnTour

I’m not sure theres a person alive who didn’t know about my parents upcoming trip to New Zealand. I certainly told anyone that would listen! We’ve been apart for 504 days (I put the dates into a nifty internet calculator and it told me the amount of days between the two dates) and sometimes itContinueContinue reading “#HallsOnTour”

Round the Bays 2016

As is now tradition, I ran the Round the Bays race 🙂 This year I completed the 10km race and I feel somewhat improved since last year (2014 I attempted the 1/2 marathon and failed…2015 I attempted the 10km)! Last year I ran and walked, like a sort of stop-go interval training thing, the whole way,ContinueContinue reading “Round the Bays 2016”