Now camp is over

So, I've been chilling out in NYC/Newark for the last few days. Had a blinken horrible time getting here, bus was an hour late etc so it took a while to get here. We had fun yesterday, just wandering round the city. Went to Ground Zero whch was amazing, strange to imagine really. We went on the free Statten Island ferry to see the Statue, but didnt go up to it. I found where to get cheap Broadway tickets from, win!! Found an amazing Disney storenin Times Square which is so happy making! We also went to a Toys'r'Us in Times Square and went on the Ferris Wheel inside!
I'm move into a mates house tomorrow, so excited about going to a house! Will upload more pics then.

Tom on the epic ferris wheel

Best toy store EVER

Green Road cones?

9/11 Memorial

Craig, me and Tom on Statten Island Ferry

Statue of Liberty and General Pretty NYC-ness

Stock Exchange



A worrrld of happy!

ZOMG A Barbie House in Toys'r'Us

Camp lipsync!

Little video I made around camp!!

Last Full Day of Camp Today

Excited, nervous, sad, worried about money...

All normal right?

Kids home tomorrow, I leave here on Monday!

Boston Baby!

DADAAAAAA

Yeah, so we went to Boston on Monday. It took us 5 hours to get there (Didn't seem like that long, I reckon I must have fallen asleep or someone is lying to me!). Anyway, we got there with the intention of heading to a Fenway Park tour, but after we had a very late lunch, we got to the park and it was closed cos there was a game on. Tom and I decided to try and get into the stadium to take some photos, while Sam, Lilla, Chris and Gabby headed off to go and have a look around Harvard. 

Tom and I ended up finding some guy on the street and he sold us his 2 $27 face value tickets - 2 for $35 as thats all we could scrape up in cash. So we got these tickets, and were just hoping they weren't a fake! We had talked to some security earlier to try and get ourselves in but that failed, so once we had these tickets we headed back to the security and they let us in (they have some special fan thing where they let people in early). It was cool being let in early, cos we got to go right down the front and take photos. Tom even managed to sweet talk a player who was practicing to get him a ball when it was hit his way, so that was pretty awesome. I tried, but then the player had to go inside, lame-o,

Anyway the game started with much fanfare. Man, the amount of people that they introduce for no reason at the start of a game is ridiculous! And then we had to stand for the National Anthem etc, and have a moment silence for the people involved in that shooting in a temple somewhere in the states or something....

They say pictures say 1000 words, so heres some pictures, and a video even!

American town with flags on every lightpost

Seriously, all the housing in Boston looked like this, it was really pretty!

We made it!!

This made me laugh. Bagpipes in America at a Baseball game, WIN!

So close to home, yet so far!

The lines to get in, that we managed to skip

 

The sign that says it all

It was a lot smaller than I expected

Players. The amount of people who asked me who they were and I laughed in their face. lolz

BLIMP!!! THEY EXIST!!!

A full stadium

Pretty house!!

The Harvard Stop

Watersports Day!!

So last Thursday, here at Sunny Camp Chinqueka, we had Watersports Day. Well, it was more kind of a Watersports afternoon, cos it didn't really start until 2pm. We went over to Awosting for it, and our theme was Egyptian. I didn't spend a lot on my costume - just one $10 necklace from Walmart - and I made the rest in Arts and Crafts/they brought the stuff and I stuck it on me in some way, shape or form. It was fun to dress up!

Awosting's theme was Roman., so in a way they were quite similar, but different enough. I've seen a video and it looked like they really got into it! They made all the boys sign up as consripts and then branded them and gave them a shield etc. Ours wasn't nearly as exciting as that, as all our girls were wearing their tribal shirts and so the girls didn't dress up as much, but us counsellors did! The night before, I had no idea what I was going to wear, so slapping something together quite quickly seemed to work in my favour.

Eventually, we got over to Awosting. The bus that we had had an external speaker and the bus driver let us yell chants into it, so that was quite fun. We headed down to their waterfront and they had up a tent and had painted their CIT's white and so they were pretending to be statues which was cool. Our maintenance men had made a sarcophagus (Which Lilla lovingly painted) that Charlotte, our waterfront director, was carried in down to their waterfront and popped out. That was pretty cool. Then our Chieftians of each tribe arrived in a pyramid on the waterfront dressed as mummies - awesome! 

Then the day commenced! It was super hot and I was down on the dock most of the day filming bits and pieces. Kinda wished I could get in the water, but kinda didn't at the same time. 

There is a big race called War Canoe - which is pretty self explanatory really, but its a huge race, and we haven't won it for 20 odd years, and we didn't win again this year, but it was super close!

We had a scrumptious dinner after, before, you guessed it, another social! Wasn't very exciting, DJ was pretty cruddy, but hey, it was fun to lax out a bit. 

And now! PHOTOS!!!

This is me and Gillian, who I managed to convince to help me film Watersports Day. Legendary Child!

Stef and Myself, Egyptian Style

The Roman Shields, and a Tom

Liam, Roman Style

The Roman Scorers. Somehow they got a hold of ink!

Me, Egyptian style!

Julia, Lilla and Me

Chazz and me, Walking like Egyptians

Egyptian Media

War canoes heading out

A very exhausted war canoe team

Conrad, Ellie and I at the social.

Bryn and I at social.

Watched some of the Black Sticks game this morning, ahhh it was so horribly close! Sad :(

Bike ride? Me? Why yes, yes I did.

So on Monday, Gabby, Ellie and Meg and I went for a nice. 9k bike ride (4.5 each way), which included lots of up hills, which I am proud to say I did most of. I didn't quite realise how much I missed bike riding! It was so nice just to go for a casual ride. If I ever move any where flat (Wellington/Porirua fail), then I'm totally gonna get a bike. We went for coffee at the local, where the lady now knows our orders haha. It was so much fun, and surprisingly, my legs weren't as sore as I thought they were gonna be the next day! Bonus!

Map, incase you don't believe me. 

Me, Meg, Gabby and Ellie. 

Bantam, where camp is

Ma Bike cous

On the way back from coffee, I had a message from the some of the guys asking if anyone wanted to go to this zoo that Ellie had suggested. I was up for it, so they nipped over and picked me up and we headed off for the hour long drive. WOW, what a depressing zoo man. After San Diego Zoo, which was amazing with how they handled their animals and grounds, this place was the pits. It was quite hilarious actually. OK, so it wasn't that bad, but I'm just gonna say this - they had a domestic cat on display, in a "cage". And when we walked over to the sheep, I went "baa" and the zoo keeper looked at me funny, I just kept walking and said "I'm from New Zealand, I speak sheep."

Hello home! I waved to you all

Ginga.

Monkey seriously needing Prozac.

After the zoo, we went out for dinner, which again was a halirious affair. I ended up with a piece of Salmon which was GORGEOUS. I miss fresh seafood. 

 2 weeks left of camp, crazy! This last bunch leave tomorrow and newbies in on Sunday. 

In other news, HOLY CRAP GO KIWIS! They are killing it at the Olympics, I wish I could watch more!

Oh yeah!

Forgot to sayin my NYC post that I totally found a guy im an All Blacks top up the top of the Empire State Building. He was from Hawkes Bay and we totally talked Super Rugby. Was awesome.