New Years
So, New Years saw a whole bunch of us road tripping outta Auckland for NYE - a whole bunch of us being : me, James, Gemma, Danny Dan Dan, Richy Rich, Elle (my fav girl ever), Rachael, Adam, Jason, Greta, Tim, Courtney, Ricky, Morgan, Sam, Hannah and James H. Destination: Gemmas parents place just outta Tauranga. Most of us left from Wairiki Road in a great big convoy that we managed to keep together pretty much the whole way down. Tim and Courtney showed up a little bit later and then later on the afternoon Morgies, Ricky and Sam showed up.
James and Hannah were supposed to be there there that day too but ended up rolling in on the 31st.
We all set up the tents and got to drinking. The tent thing was a bit of a mission - James had borrowed a tent of his dad and funnily enough there were no pegs for the silly thing. It was one of those huge old tents that didn't use guys ropes - just pegs to keep everything up so we were in a little bit of trouble. Dan and James managed to get it up and scrounged a few spare pegs off people. They then decided that we needed make-shift guy ropes just to ensure it stayed standing so James improvised with metres of fucking network cable that he had in the boot of his car (GEEK!).
For some reason James and I piked a little earlier than everyone else that night and at some point during the night I woke up to the sound of The Specials of all fucking things floating down the hill towards the tents. I was a bit confused at this point and thought I was at home with James blaring his music till I remembered that no - I was in Tauranga in a tent and James was asleep next to me. Turns out the Jason likes a bit of the old ska - told him he should go with James to gigs in the future.
The next day was pretty much spent drinking, swimming, watching Sam try stick a noodle up Flossies butt and waiting for nightfall so we could all get really fucked up. As you can imagine we did :) Theres nothing better than being with a whole bunch of people that you really like and all of you being fucked up and having fun. The spa got turned on and yeah - the night was just awesome, I was even being nice and getting beers for the boys stuck in the spa when they asked me to......
A bunch of us stayed up all night and I think at about 10 or 11 in the morning I gave up and had to go to bed cause I was really worried I was going to be a fucking grumpy cow if I didn't sleep. I think I got about an hours worth and then spent the next 6 or so hours lying the tent being bung. There was a huge thunder storm at one point which when James came down to the tent to see me we had to really yell at each other so we could hear what each other were saying. Then James and everyone else spent the storm sitting in the spa getting rained on just watching the weather. I got up at some point and went up to the house and we sat around being bung until eventually we all crashed out. Then the next day it was off home.
To everyone that was there - thanks for making it such an awesome New Years, you guys rock and I'm really glad we were all together (awww mush), Elle it was fucking fantastic to spend NYE with you again I miss you so much babe.
Gemma - thanks to you and Dan for having us and your parents rock!! I told them that about 50 times on NYE while flying off my head but yeah - not many parents would let 16 or so people descend on their home for the sole purpose of getting really fucked up for NYE.
So yeah - here be a selection of photos. I warn you - there are a lot of them....oh and to everyone else that was there - I want copies of any photos you all took as well and I also have more than these so if you wanna see them - you'll have to come visit me :)
December 30
James went to start loading up the car only to find we had a stowaway:
James's uber wanky black absinthe
James being wanky with photos of the pool
Spa sluts...
The shortcut
Tent City
December 31 (day time only - was a bit too fucked to operate a camera that night, if you wanna see photos of the night including one of me looking completely ridiculous in Richards hat see miseryxxx's journal))
The View
Adam and Tim playing with the car - not that you can see the car in the pic...
Pool Sluts
Runaway Umbrella...
Tent City - mine and James is the big one in the middle (well it looks like its at the end in this shot)..
January 1
More View
January 2
No more tent city :(
James and Hannah were supposed to be there there that day too but ended up rolling in on the 31st.
We all set up the tents and got to drinking. The tent thing was a bit of a mission - James had borrowed a tent of his dad and funnily enough there were no pegs for the silly thing. It was one of those huge old tents that didn't use guys ropes - just pegs to keep everything up so we were in a little bit of trouble. Dan and James managed to get it up and scrounged a few spare pegs off people. They then decided that we needed make-shift guy ropes just to ensure it stayed standing so James improvised with metres of fucking network cable that he had in the boot of his car (GEEK!).
For some reason James and I piked a little earlier than everyone else that night and at some point during the night I woke up to the sound of The Specials of all fucking things floating down the hill towards the tents. I was a bit confused at this point and thought I was at home with James blaring his music till I remembered that no - I was in Tauranga in a tent and James was asleep next to me. Turns out the Jason likes a bit of the old ska - told him he should go with James to gigs in the future.
The next day was pretty much spent drinking, swimming, watching Sam try stick a noodle up Flossies butt and waiting for nightfall so we could all get really fucked up. As you can imagine we did :) Theres nothing better than being with a whole bunch of people that you really like and all of you being fucked up and having fun. The spa got turned on and yeah - the night was just awesome, I was even being nice and getting beers for the boys stuck in the spa when they asked me to......
A bunch of us stayed up all night and I think at about 10 or 11 in the morning I gave up and had to go to bed cause I was really worried I was going to be a fucking grumpy cow if I didn't sleep. I think I got about an hours worth and then spent the next 6 or so hours lying the tent being bung. There was a huge thunder storm at one point which when James came down to the tent to see me we had to really yell at each other so we could hear what each other were saying. Then James and everyone else spent the storm sitting in the spa getting rained on just watching the weather. I got up at some point and went up to the house and we sat around being bung until eventually we all crashed out. Then the next day it was off home.
To everyone that was there - thanks for making it such an awesome New Years, you guys rock and I'm really glad we were all together (awww mush), Elle it was fucking fantastic to spend NYE with you again I miss you so much babe.
Gemma - thanks to you and Dan for having us and your parents rock!! I told them that about 50 times on NYE while flying off my head but yeah - not many parents would let 16 or so people descend on their home for the sole purpose of getting really fucked up for NYE.
So yeah - here be a selection of photos. I warn you - there are a lot of them....oh and to everyone else that was there - I want copies of any photos you all took as well and I also have more than these so if you wanna see them - you'll have to come visit me :)
December 30
James went to start loading up the car only to find we had a stowaway:
James's uber wanky black absinthe
James being wanky with photos of the pool
Spa sluts...
The shortcut
Tent City
December 31 (day time only - was a bit too fucked to operate a camera that night, if you wanna see photos of the night including one of me looking completely ridiculous in Richards hat see miseryxxx's journal))
The View
Adam and Tim playing with the car - not that you can see the car in the pic...
Pool Sluts
Runaway Umbrella...
Tent City - mine and James is the big one in the middle (well it looks like its at the end in this shot)..
January 1
More View
January 2
No more tent city :(