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SUB NOTE: HAVE ADDED PHOTOS. LOTS TO MAKE UP FOR THESE BEING THE LAST ONES. ENJOY! x

(This is a long one guys, you have been warned - New year, mad jumping, Milford and an epic walk all in one. I was going to mention that you would be rewarded your reading efforts by showing you lots of photos, but alas I've misplaced my USB wire after the last blog, so sadly there will be no more photos - which I'm actually quite sad about. I can still transfer photos to CD though with weird things known as chip readers, and will be doing so in a couple of days, so watch this space as I may be able to get some posted from CD...).

A jump, a bang and a whole new date!

Simon Wadsworth
2006-09-04 17:31:23

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SUB NOTE: HAVE ADDED PHOTOS. LOTS TO MAKE UP FOR THESE BEING THE LAST ONES. ENJOY! x

(This is a long one guys, you have been warned - New year, mad jumping, Milford and an epic walk all in one. I was going to mention that you would be rewarded your reading efforts by showing you lots of photos, but alas I've misplaced my USB wire after the last blog, so sadly there will be no more photos - which I'm actually quite sad about. I can still transfer photos to CD though with weird things known as chip readers, and will be doing so in a couple of days, so watch this space as I may be able to get some posted from CD...).

Well, once again, planet Earth has done a jig round the sun and the torment of mistakingly writing the previous year on dates and crossing it out starts all over again. Happy New Year everyone, and I hope your memories of New Year's Eve (if you have retained them...) are good ones. I don't usually bother, but this year I have decided upon an appropriate resolution - to remember people's names, a skill I'm usually worse than hopeless at. And what better way to practise than suddenly befriending a group of people on New Year's Eve by the usual protocol: a traveller's handshake and receiving of a random name - in this case, 7 in a row. So together we did some bar hopping, fireworks watching, talked nonsense and counted in the New Year with a bang with 30,000 other revellers on the streets of Wanaka, Queenstown's smaller brother; and despite some drinking I'm proud to say I have remembered all their names. Test one achieve, and a fun New year's party was had.

Anyways, as (I would hope) is evident my now, I survived the bungee jump from the 43m Karawau Bridge. Not necessarily the tallest bungee I could do, but it's the original, where the world's first professional bungee took place back in 1988 by AJ Hackett, and the one I've been wanting to do for all my thrill-seeking ...