daryl island

its funny to think that New Zealand was almost a year ago, but I still go through the pics and have fun editing them. anyways...this picture, is just funny.

so after the conference that my dad taught at we went and stayed with jani and peter for a couple days, my dad's cousin and her husband, and then their son ivan, the giant standing next to me.
they decided to kinda give us a tour of keri keri (where they lived) i guess you could say. anyways, ivan mentioned going on the exciter. so we drive over to this place like an hour away...called daryl harbor. it was beautiful there, i dont know if you can find a place in new zealand thats not...but anyways, my aunt buys these tickets for this boat ride. we go around to the back of this building and this lady says, "go in there and you'll get your suit!"
suit?? yeah...we had to wear full on life saver suits. i wasnt quite sure why at this point, but i did it anyways. then they show us this video about what we would see and where it would go. and gave us little water proof protectors for cameras, cell phones, etc.
we walk outside and this man starts telling everyone why we were wearing these suits, i'm not sure whether he was just trying to be nice and warn us, or scare us half to death. he starts telling us about how scary it is and how fast it goes and that people have passed out and someone almost fell off and how the boat could possibly tip over, you could die... all this stuff. then i realize my aunt isn't wearing a suit, so i asked her why she didnt have one on and she goes, "are you kidding me??? i am NOT going on that!" so, as you can imagine, i was freaked out. this pic was taken by my aunt while this guy was preparing us for death.

my dad apparently thought maybe it was some sort of joke, but wasn't sure.
my cousin looks ready for war or something.
and i was just scared to death...i didn't go to new zealand to die.
BUT, it was abosultely worth every second.
there are more pics on my flickr. click here.
have a good day!