This morning we packed an overnight bag for a two day trip to Whakatane. We left early in the morning and stopped on Rotorua to go zorbing! They described it to us as sort of like rolling down in a hill in a giant hamster ball, so of course I was really excited to do it. It was much different than I expected, but much more fun! They piled us in a van to get to the top of the hill where there were a bunch of huge plastic balls waiting for us. I watched a few people go down the winding path and it seemed like they weren't going very fast or sliding around much. When it was my turn up, they hosed a little bit of water into the ball and I dove in! Soon as I knew it, I was rolling down the hill and sliding all around inside the ball! It was much faster than it looked like from watching others and I was sliding all around and going backwards and sideways, it was insane. I had so much fun!
Me zorbing! (a little poor quality because I took these shots from my movie)
After the rest of the group went, we changed out of our swimsuits and got back on the coach to head to Whakatane. We got to our motel, which was really nice with large rooms and I even got a double bed for once (thank god!). After getting settled, we headed down to the docks for dinner at a really nice seafood restaurant right on the water. I had a huge delicious meal of fish, scallops, oysters, and shrimp.. yum! Then we walked through town and headed back to our motel for the night.
