Yup thats the menu if you want a full loaded, unforgettable weekend!
We started off friday going to Oktoberfest organised by German businnes assosiation and sponsored by BMW so it ment free entry and food for us.
On the invitation it said that we should come dressed smart and casual but when the most of the people to the party are 40+ in fancy pressed pants and jackets you get the feeling of beeing underdressed when youre standing in a pair of diesel trousers and a shirt. But we were able to say prost better than the guy on the stage so we won a bit back on that.
It was a great party, the whole night was good organised and there were German food and beer. After a few beers and a terrible shot of some kind of German spirit we entered the dancefloor and everybody were happy. The night ended after a visit to a disco downtown and yet more dancing.
The day after we left Auckland at around 10 am in order to get to Waitomo where we have booked a "Black Abyss" tour. We started out on the highway which is normal surface but then suddenly the road turns into something reminding of tarmac with a extra layer of stone ontop, its not bumpy but its noisy and quite annoying. We managed and we left the mainroad in order to do a shortcut through a countryside, and what a scenery. Eventhough it rained from time to time we managed to get some great pictures of what must be the greenest grass on earth and sheeps and cows of course.
We got to the place where our tour would take place an hour earlier than expected so we went for lunch and a cave museum to make the time go by and prepare for 5 hours underground.
At 2pm we got Rubberized in wetsuits and helmets, we were ready to go, but first we needed to have some training in lowering our selves into the cave. It proved to be funnier than expected, Markus S the oldest one of us also known as Opa/Grandpa(not only his age qualifies him to that title but will be explained later) had some great one-liners which made the whole team roll on the ground laughing. We got strapped on to a rope going downwards for 37 meters through a small crack where you at times wasnt sure if you would come through. The whole team of 7 people mangede their way to the buttom of the cave and we started walking and saw lots of stone formations and fossils. We then came to a point where we had to go on a "flying fox" in total darkness where the only light were from an animal called "glowworms" which makes a neon green dot on the wall. After the glide we had a small tea break and had a piece of cake, then it was time to get in the water. We pulled ourselves upsteam via a rope and turned off the lights on our helmets, we then got towed by the guide all the way back while lying on our rubber tire watching glowworms.
After the glowworms we began our tour through the caves which got us through small and large passages and different obstacles. We ended up climbing 2 waterfalls and after 5 hours without daylight we finally got out in light again.
GREAT EXPERIENCE would defently do it again if any one is up for a extra tour :)
After we got out of our rubber suits we drove to Hamilton which is the nearest city to watch the All blacks(NZ) playing against wallabies (AUS). It was a great game of rugby with the result of 33 - 6 to New Zealand so the atmosphere in the bar we found were great, people jumping, shouting and just celebrating.
After the match we left Hamilton, or tried to. It wasnt planned that we wanted to go there so we had not prepared any maps and signs isnt a thing that the kiwis do much in so we were a bit lost but finally we found our way out and we drove home to Auckland.
Today sunday we slept long and afterwards we decided to make a quiet day of driving a bit to the north and have a look at the wineyards near Auckland. Afterwards we drove to Muriwai beach where we had a look at the surfers and some birds with yellow haircut :D Great view and okay waves for the surfers, and lucky for us the weather went from okay to great so the jackets were left behind in the car and we went in short sleeves on the rocks.
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