baking, jumping, and surfing

Last week a bunch of us really wanted some cookies (or biscuits as they say here), so we decided to try and make them from scratch.  Ray was put in charge because she wanted to stretch her cooking muscles.  It probably wasn't the best time to try this, as we were missing quite a few ingredients essential to baking cookies (baking powder/soda, vanilla) as well as things like beaters to mix the stuff together.  It was quite hilarious watching the whole scene unfold, and long story short, the end results hardly resembled cookies, but instead we got some pretty awesome pancakes.  who knew...

we went to karaoke again on thursday... i love karaoke

saturday morning we went bridge jumping (swing, not bungy), and i had  pretty awesome time on my jump.  i did more or less a swan dive off the bridge.  it was quite the rush, and i was impressed with my composure and lack of hesitation on my jump... and by the way, i didn't tell anyone because i didn't want y'all to worry.  turns out there was reason to worry.  i'll explain that later.

saturday evening, we borrowed a friend's car and trucked it on over to the east coast to castlepoint for a little surf club camp out action.  lindsay (one of my flat mates) drove us and i was the navigator (bad idea p.s.).  the directions the surf president gave us were a little esoteric, incomprehensible for people who don't know the area, but we still got to the camp site a little after midnight.  we hung around the campfire for a while and then headed off to "bed".  everyone else had their nice tents set up, but we came, knowingly, ill-prepared and tried to sleep in the car - it was too windy to sleep comfortably outside.  that didn't really go well, but i did get to see a lot of stars and the sun rise so no complaints there.  around 8am we all started rummaging around and eventually headed to the beach.  i briefly did some boogie boarding, and then tried to surf.  i wasn't able to actually stand up on the board, but i sure did have fun trying and i can't wait until surf camp in two weeks to try again.  i feel like i was pretty close to getting it, but we'll see.

this should be an exciting week- volleyball starts tomorrow, possibly netball or fire club on tuesday, and lake taupo this weekend.