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No skydiving for me. No way. So while Katie was scarting across the sky, I was enjoying life at a more leisurly pace (although it did have its moments of unspeakable fear and adrenalin pumping, for reasons best kept to myself). I took to the seas again (well, Lake Taupo) on a gorgeous boat called the Barbary for a lovely evenings sailing. She once belonged to Errol Flynn who won her in a card game, so I was sitting on the same boat that the libertine had sailed and of course ravished hundreds of hollywood ladies in. Our skipper let me steer for a little while as we sailed across the beautiful clear lake, a moment only enhanced by an american newlywed couples re-enactment of Titanic for us all (did I say enhanced? I might mean something else).
In preperation for the 17k hike we're doing tomorrow, Katie and I have spent an extremely lazy day lying around in hot water. Together with Annie (our room-mate at the Rainbow Lodge) we walked down to the hot springs that run into the river above Lake Taupo. Absolute bloody bliss- Taupo rests above a volcano and so water runs from the springs at bath temperature, aaahhhhh! This is my kind of life. However I am a little worried about the walk up Mount Doom tomorrow... perhaps we should have maybe done a Rocky-type training montage with Katie as Micky and Annie as Apollo, running along the beach... too late now, damnit! Love to you all, especially Elsie, two months old tomorrow, horray!