Epic Photoness

Prepare yourself for a large amount of photographs :D

A couple of weeks ago, Me, Brooke and Katharina went on a little roady out to Port Waikato. It wasn't just for fun (although it was fun), it was for Photography. Fun-tography!! :D

We each had our Cannon 5D Mark II's and plenty of beautiful NZ to satisfy our photographic needs, and boy did Aotearoa turn on THE perfect day!! We had thick fog in the morning, lingering fog later on, then strait up gorgeous blue skys from lunchtime.

So here you go, a small sampling of what I tried to create from God's amazing creation :D

It wouldn't be a proper photography day if I didn't take photos of my feet

Yes this is a self portrait :D

Roady to Palmy

On Saturday I had a Dance Comp in Palmy, which means ROAD TRIP!! Some of the coolest people ever came down with me, Tania, Nakita and Reno, and boy-o-boy was it a lOoonngg day!!

After waking up at 5.30am to get ready, we left Hamilton at 7am and got to the Arena at about 11.45am. The rest of Footworks DanceSport Studio (my Crew), arrived shortly after and we set ourselves up in the stands.

Smell my Footworks

At 1pm, the madness (awesomly FUN madness of course) began. I was dancing in 8 events, 5 of those events had Semi's + Finals, and I also danced 3 Guys through their competitions, which had Semi's and Finals (which they all carved up in!!) I calculated, and I think I danced approx 50 times. The competition didn't finish till after 9pm, and then we had the Awards Ceremony.

Me and William dancing a Waltz (couple 64)

Busting out our Latin ChaCha

Footworks did fleepin awesome!! The guys that I danced through got mostly 1sts and a couple of 2nds, I placed 1st in all but 2 of my events (one I got a 2nd, and the other I didnt place), and the 4 Footworks Competition couples did AWESOME! Nikita and Ben, what can I say..they Won Everything!!!! They got atleast 10 trophies, upgraded in both Ballroom and New Vogue (I cant remember if they upgraded in Latin, but they probably did), which is awesome!! Soo soo wish I could dance like Nikita! And we won our 2 group events yayayaahh!

We finally finished everything at 10 and went to Reno's brothers house down the road to watch the rugby. I was doing fine Energy wise untill we got into the car and I pretty much crashed. I was soo exhausted during the game, that I couldn't sleep and could only think 'my feet hurt so bad, im soo tired, I wanna go home'(and Tania/Nakita thought the exact same thing lol). So the Second that game finished, us girls were Up and out the door, and sleeping in the car.

We got home at 5am-ish, dropped our stuff on the floor and rolled into bed. 24 hrs is a looong freakin time I tell ya, and my poor Roadtrip buddies had to sit and watch me dance for 9hrs (sorry guys), but it was fun times!!

Yes there are only 5 Certificates here, the other 2 were won for Group Events and are up at the Studio with our Trophy :)

Pies are bad, but oooh soo good!!

So Les Mills had a '$21 for 21 Days' promotion and I have been waking up at 5.30am(ish) almost everyday for the last 19 days, to go to the gym and work my tiny little butt off.

Its been pretty fun, and I have felt really healthy + energetic and less hungry for pies (Karaaaazeee). Yesterday(Saturday), I felt soo good after my workout/intense exercise class ('Body Impact'), that Carl managed to talk me into going for a bikeride. I almost died, and it took an hour to complete (sooo tired!!), but it was really fun.

I got Tania to take some photos when we finished, and the egg took some really awesome ones! How dare she be better at photography then me! I am pretty annoyed at her and her awesomeness, so I will only share some of them.

After I was exhausted from being all active and stuff, I managed to reach into my awesome energy reserves and go Rock Climbing at Extreme edge on Greenwood street. It was hecka fun and they even have a whole new section for kids(and big kids) that have skeletons + jungles + kites + Kiwiana + pirate + more theme walls that dont even require a b-lay. Insane I say, but we didnt die, so its all good!

N e Hu, I am nowhere near as sore today as I thought I would be, so the Gym is FANTASTIC!! If only I had enough money to get a membership, I totally would. I guess I just have to go extra hard at my 'Body Pump' (weight class) and 'Body Balance' (Yoga/Pilates) sessions on Monday and Tuesday, coz thats the last days on my Trial :(

Boston-The awesomest place Ever!!

This week last year I....

Our last Camp Fire :( at CAMP WAPANACKI

The dream team (Me, Katie -Liverpool, Monika-Germany, Emma-Ozzie, Fatimah-South Africa, Dyandra - London and Faye - Birmingham) bussed it from Vermont to Boston. After saying 'see ya later' to Fatimah, we jumped on the subway....

...and got a bit lost...

...and then we were found :) Boston was hella hot and humid. It got up to 99% humidity and 107 degrees.

(Emmy)

We visited all the monuments and random statues. In Boston there is a really cool thing called 'The Red Line', its painted/tiled/bricked into the road/path and you can follow it all around the city, through the old and the new. It was perty choice and we walked it for hours and hours.

(Faye, Katie)

Boston City

We were chilling in a Park, eating our Dunkin Donuts, watching the American Armed Forces training session. They thought we were cool as and invited us to train with them. Check out my amazing tan/muscles lol

A randomly awesome pool type thing in the middle of the City. Check out my flippin awesome tan!!!

(Faye, Moni, Me)

We visited so many place in Boston including Harvard Law School (above)

(Faye, Katie, Emma, Moni)

I cant remember where this was, but I think it was around Harvard Law

(Katie, Me, Faye)

The Dream Team sometime during our awesome adventures

On a boat (with our flippy floppies) on our way to Spectacle Island where it was hella hot and we almost died, then the tropical storm came in and we all had to run inside and not die. I love adventures

After our chilling on the burning hot beach, swimming in the Icy water and hiding inside from the cyclone. Spectacle Island

After Boston, we said 'Farewell' and sung a million camp songs to Monika at the airport, then picked Fatimah up at the Bus Station to travel to Washington DC to visit Uncle Obama :)

Night Owls 09

Mum is in America and I'm ridiculously jealous, so I thought I would share a little bit of my adventures from this time last year.

It was the 1st of August 2009 and I was having the time of my life at Camp Wapanaki, a Girl-scout camp in Hardwick, VT. It was the beginning of a new session and I was a Unit-Leader for two groups called 'Night Owls'. Think 16 extremely awesome, 11ish year old American girls, living in the wilderness with a 4 1/2 Extra awesome counsellors (me, 3 others, and lifeguard Katie who was with us during the nights), and no shortage of sugary foods. It was definitely one of my favorite/hardest/most rewarding weeks.

So here are some highlights.

Megan (Australia/Co-counsellor), in our awesome Tent.

4 of the Girls and their creation Mohammed. 'Why did you call the walking box mohammed?' "Because its a box..er :)" I was never that clever.

Counsellors during our Camp out. One of the funniest nights EVER!!! It was soo hot and we ate way to much chocolate, but we had alot of fun.

My first experience Tye-dyeing

I'm so proud of my creation :)

Our Night Swim in Lake Wapanaki

Our group was called 'Night Owls' so we had to plan night activities. Crazy hard to have energy during the normal day activities, then have an extra hour or two of activities during sleep time. Crazy, but soo much fun.

All the Girls after our swim, (I think we were being power rangers but I was pretty much asleep) I totally don't miss my purple shorts or my eyebrows, but I hard out miss my tan!

Me and Katie my fellow lifeguard, getting ready to take our girls on a sponanious/surprise Kitchen Raid.

Night Owls 'Hoot Hoooot' naaww I miss my girlies :(