We are keeping busy. We are keeping so busy I can’t even get the time to sit down, organize and write on my blog. Two days ago we went zorbing. That was on the 29th of August. Yesterday we went to Matamata and looked at Hobbiton and had some fun in Bag End.
And today, we came to Waitomo Caves. THAT is the most amazing thing I have ever experienced. I was completely spechless and I encountered this gruesome pain everywhere! No one was permitted to bring along their camera. It hurt, it hurt so much and it still hurts. Probably will keep hurting me as long as I live. But that’s for another blog entry. This one is concentrated on zorbing or the new thing zydroing.
The Kiwis, of course, came up with this a few years ago. It concerns you, strapped spread eagled into a big sphere in a sphere filled with air, rolling down a hill. Sounds dangerous but it is not. The ones who work there are the elite. We didn’t do any zorbing, we did zydroing. Almost the same principle. Only in this one you are not strapped onto anything and you got some water in it. In certain cases, you can go two in one, which we tried out first just straight down a hill.
Just imagine being in a round ball with some warm water on a typical rainy day coming crashing down a hill. What better way to spend the day?
Needless to say… it was so fun we had to do it again. But this time solo and we came down a twisted slope. THAT was insane! At first I tried to run down the hill but just after the first corner, I dropped my balance, fell and then rolled around with the waterproof camera, up and down, down and up.
As you will see from the pictures, the way you enter the zorb is by jumping in through a hole which the crew later closes. When you are down the hill they open it up, and it’s like the zorb gives birth to you. Yes people, you should understand what I mean. They open the hole, turn it to the bottom and then you go out along with the water. Feet first. 
Jenny would however describe it as like when you go to the toilet. You probably get that picture quite clearly in your head right now. And now. And now. And now. And soon it will be there everytime you think of zorbing. Then blame Jenny for that picture. It is great fun anyway.
Click here for a whole collection of funny pictures from the day!
by Ken
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