nitro circus & boating day & first 21st & wedding & pori pori

last wednesday carmen and i set out for hamilton to meet up with the bois, logan and blair to watch nitro circus live!

the nitro circus stadium

it was pretty siiick! so much rediculousness happening at the same time. bmx, fmx, skateboarding, scooters, rollerblades, and other various random objects with wheels such as a pink barbie car! all doing tricks upon tricks.

aaand I CAN HEAR AGAIN! for the past several days i have been unable to hear out of my right ear due to sea water and a build up of ear wax (yummaaa!). well, logan had this syringe that he filled with water to squirt into my ear, and low and behold after much squirming and laughing so hard i had tears streaming, the loathsome chunks of wax came out aaand i could hear!!! i was so stoked. there were never truer friends :)

beauty of a sunset in our backyard

this past saturday it was the first youth event of the year (i will be helping out with the youth group at Bethlehem Baptist Church or BBC, carmen's church) and we had a boating day! it was real fun and there were all sorts of things to do in the water such as, wakeboarding, skiing, tubing (or they call it biscuiting), banana boating, etc. i attempted single skii a couple times but to no avail, i'll just come back to that later :) and went for a mean ride on the tubes, i am a tad terrified of them but that made it all the more funny. good times.

after the boating, we got glamed up in a flash to head to carmen's cousin fraser's 21st birthday party. here in NZ the 21st birthday is a HUGE celebration. think about a wedding and it's pretty close to that. there is tons of food, everyone is dressed up (depending on the party), speeches, a slide show, and loads of family and friends! at this particular one they also had a dance which was heaps of fun, they had a couple come in who taught couple dancing, and we did it! the lads all stayed a circle and all the women moved around circle, one to the right every time they said to, which was real fun. so heaps of laughs were had as not everyone was very fluid or could even remember the steps!

on the sunday i assisted carmen in shooting a wedding (photography). i was not expecting to actually take photo's but she got me to as we both had nikons that could interchange lenses. i got to use mine with a MASSIVE lens. i felt real pro. :)

then i met up with vanessa and laura (two awesome friends of carmen's who are now my friends too :) ) and they took me to pori pori, a super sweet swimming spot in a river. we would let the current take us down and then try to get to the edge to clamber up on the rocks and do it all over again which was great laughs. and the day was finished with watching a flick at laura's.