Rocky lives in Mordor, with biscuits

Having just viewed Katie's skydiving pictures (see below) I realise I can't possibly compete with their aceness, but will endeavour to make this as entertaining as possible. Rocky lives! Katie, Annie and I completed the Tongariro Crossing today, and no training montage was necessary as we all did spectacularly well. Feeling rather buff and smug at the moment, a la Rocky 4 when he runs up the mountain in Russia before meeting Drago. The walk itself was just amazing, amazing, amazing. When we started at 7am mists surrounded us on all sides and closed in as we made our way up the slopes of Mount Doom on the Devil's Staircase. As we attained the summet, the mists cleared and the sun rose and we were surrounded by the most incredible landscape as far as the eye could see in every direction. Above us was Mount Tongario, beside us was a dormant volcano with a deep red crater, and below us were the emerald and blue lakes. Hopefully some pictures will appear soon to illustrate how magnificant it all was...
Woooo, guns n roses just came on in the internet cafe I'm sitting in and so I'm inspired to write more. (It's Welcome to the Jungle by the way). Yesterday Katie decided to go for a sail in the Barbary, which I had visited the day before (see below). Last night, however, I managed to gain passage on the noble vessel with a packet of biscuits and nothing else. Despite it being cloudy and rather cold we hardy pair decided it was a good idea to go swimming... not a good idea. Song over, so post over. S xx Arggh no way, the opening chords of 'Sweet Child O' Mine' just turned into 'Goodbye My Lover', the bloody James Blunt gods strike again!!!!!!!