I keep meaning to update my blog, but once I get there I just don’t feel like it. This will all be rectified now. Well partially anyway. Two weekends have passed, so I may gloss over earlier events due to fading memories.
The first of the two weekends, I went out to the navs camp that was at Lake Lyndon. Some good times were had, including some climbing on castle rock and a walk through cave stream. I then biked back to Christchurch from there with Merodie, the process of which had varying fun levels over the course of the trip. Down Porter’s pass was great, as was biking along the flat once the head wind went away. We stopped in Darfield for coffee and I stopped again in Kirwee for a banana and some chocolate. It then took a long time to catch back up to Merodie, but I did eventually manage it. Just as we were coming into town along Yaldhurst Road, cruising at a leisurely 29kph a guy on a road bike blitzed past us with a friendly I’m blitzing past you greeting. I decided I would quite like to catch up to him and was soon burning along at approximately 44kph right on his tail. Despite his efforts to lose me, he couldn’t. Eventually we had to stop at some lights where he found out that I had just biked all the way from Lake Lyndon (he asked how far we’d come) and then the lights changed and I left him in the dust. So I arrived back at the flat completely amped 🙂
I went to a flatwarming at Emily’s new flat on Thursday just been and then saw Lord of War at the movies on Friday which I enjoyed, but didn’t blow me away, which I guess you can’t expect from every movie.
Then on Saturday, we went whitewater rafting! Lots of fun. Started out with Macdonalds for breakfast on Colombo st. which meant that we got to see the Le Race riders go by, as we happened to be there at just the right/wrong time. Rafting was lots of fun. Despite it’s incriminating nature, I will link to Mark’s description, rather than repeating it, as it is very detailed. We had a bit of a competition to see who could do the most girly scream jumping off the 10m jump rock, which I was winning comfortably right until some actual girls actually screamed on the way down. There are some photos of before and after the rafting here. We are getting some photos of the actual rafting which does show us in the water as well after the raft flipped, which I may add when I get a hold of them.