Another Trip to Civilization

Here in the boonies, bad weather days are used to make trips to civilization. As most of the mountain was closed for wednesday due to bad weather, we decided against going skiing. Instead, we were going to drive to a nearby city to get Jon some contact solution. Turns out that my friend Leo beat us to the idea. He had gotten off of work at 10 am (because of the bad weather) and had come to The Park to ask Josh, our friend and supervisor at work, for a ride to Taupo. Those two somehow managed to find out where Jon and I live and came knocking at our door. They needed to fill a carload of people to make the trip cheaper. So we drove with them instead of using our own car. Interestingly enough, Amy ended up coming with us. Somehow I always end up hanging out with the same people.

Taupo gets a little boring after a while. We just ended up getting groceries and hanging around most of the time. There is a movie theater in town, so we took advantage of that and watched "The Hangover" which was actually pretty good. And that's saying something coming from me, since I tend to hate the movies that everyone else likes. I'm really glad we didn't end up watching Bruno. That would have been a huge waste of money.

Jon and I bought bindings off of Trade Me last night. If these bindings are useable, then we'll attach them to his janky board. Maybe that will suffice to make riding the little thing easier.

You can tell by my writing that I am getting bored right now. I will probably go out drinking tonight. The big event of the week is that a DJ is coming to the pub tonight. Apparently everyone has been getting sick of the music they play at the pub, so people were very excited to go experience the music. I hope to infiltrate the masses and do some hanging out. Jon has to work. I will be alone. Except for my friends from Rentals. Which is a good portion of the people living in National Park, so I really won't be alone. But still.

Yeah, sorry for the lack of news. Bad weather means life kind of stands still when you're in the middle of nowhere.

Jalissa