the skinny day

the alcoves...

whoooo free weekend! friday morning started off with renting a vehicle. solid as. THEN our last day with mal and having ministry... it was probably the craziest day ever. in combination with the previous night's prayer meeting... oh man. i won't say names but we had a manifestation (which he is claiming wasn't a manifestation... which has me very very confused and concerned) that took ten people to hold him down. it'd been a long time coming and through his confession that broke off something the night before he allowed himself to be touched (and maybe delivered... we aren't sure..)but not only through him but through other things... i think ji-won was finally set free. she saw an army of angels... iiiii think thats a pretty solid sign of good things happening.

so after our crazy morning we went to town, got our rental vehicles, and had a horridly frustrating late afternoon with people dropping out of our plans and me not being able to get ahold of alana to make plans and everything frustrating... it was nasty. but the girls were going to stephs town for a girls night, so we boys were takin the rental van an we headed to hamilton for some bowling. (i finally got ahold of alana on the last try before we left, an we agreed to meet in cambridge at 10 for some fun.) we were gonna go see a movie, but since we had a time crunch we ended up just bowling and we all sucked. but it was good... an to be in hamilton as well as cambridge and just chillin. we met up with alana an her friend naomi (who chris knew, so it was automatically not awkward (as i met up with the girls, the other 7 boys (minus john-mark cuz he is addicted to skateboarding..) were hooding it up on the steps in the dark awkwardly ten feet away from us... but then chris stood up an was all 'naomi? what?')) an we decided to head over to the capernwray school to hang out. which was awesome! cuz all 8 boys had new people to talk too, and i knew another girl there from calgary, and another few people with mutual laura an jef an jeff friends.. it was sweet. we had a good night (though i don't think the capernwray boys much cared for us... eee awkward...) and headed home to sleep.

saturday morning! we took off for rotorua around... 9:30. ish. we were late. i lie... we left later. it doesn't matter. rotorua is only an hour away so we got there and met up with pete, our rafting guide. there was a massive marathon going on (apparently the biggest one in NZ each year) so the 15 minute drive took 45 minutes... but it was all good cuz it was a small rafting company and rafting companies are chill to begin with so a small one was even more-so. rafting last summer in colorado was amazing, and really fast, but this one wasn't as fast but ohhh man there were water falls... there was a 3 meter fall to begin with, then one meter, then a 7 meter fall to cap it off about halfway through the fun. i was actually really nervous for it but it was probably one of the most fun experiences of my life (which i somehow forgot from colorado (how can you forget that?!)) and it was short but sweet, an the pics are amazing so eventually you will see. we found a pretty cool $9 a person hostel ish place to camp at (or... $4.50 a person if only the boys sleep in the tent muhahaha shhh tell no one.) then we went an saw fast & furious... it was ok but what was more than ok was relaxing and seeing a movie after not having seen one in almost 3 months. but seriously it was such a good night. today was just as good, though we were pretty dried up on spending money, so all the cool thermal volcano tourist traps we wanted to go too were far too expensive so we ended up doing a tiny hike which turned into adventuring which turned into finding a pathway to the waterfall base where nobody else was. we felt special and took a lot of pictures. then we went home, had some icecream, and became exhausted. sooo tired.... in my frugality i bought only a loaf of some bread, peanut butter and a kg of golden kiwi, so i had that for 3 meals. so .. good? yeah. under $10 wins everytime. did you know you can just eat the skin off of a golden kiwi? cuz i do now, and i do and i enjoy. mmmmmm

goodt.

ps, the terminator salvation trailor gave me the movie chills. i am really excited for it.