We were awakened at 6:30. I swear we never slept on this trip. We didn't go to bed until the early hours of the morning usually. No Mom, this was not JUST because we were chatting. We were always doing something in the schedule until like 11pm or midnight. Course we weren't supposed to have our watches because Aboriginals don't operate on our time exactly. It is more of a guideline. Things aren't scheduled for times - in the morning we'll do this, then later we'll do that, etc. When we get to it we'll get to it. It isn't going anywhere type of thing. We were warned of this and were told it would be a lot of hurry up and wait. I'd just like to say that we only had the hurry up and wait because Peta (who's fun/nice/approval rating went progressively lower throughout the week) made us hurry up and wait. Instead of just getting us ready when they were ready...
Anyway. It was originally planned that we would spend 3 nights outside in our swags (pictures day 3 probably) but because the weather was REALLY windy and rainy our first night and it was supposed to be the same the next night they took pity on us city people and decided we'd stay outside just 2 nights and only 'rough' it when it came to breakfast and dinner on Day 2.
Breakfast: This was our first adventure cooking over a fireplace and actually went pretty well. Each meal (not lunch, that changed daily) we were given two big trunk things that had ingredients, directions, and cooking utensils. I don't remember what we had for breakfast that day. I think it was eggs and mushrooms and bread and cereal.
After breakfast we did sightseeing things because technically we weren't set to start the Aboriginal experience until that night (we got there a day early for some reason and they let us stay there and fed us also). We went to a ghost town from the mining boom, and to a salt lake. In our super cool bus that it won't let me upload a picture of so instead this is the sign going into Morapoi station our home base.
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