Welcome back to the Tunderdome

Well it's been awhile planet earth. I truly am sorry for not updating you on my life because I know how hard it must be to go so long without hearing about how I am so much more interesting than you are. Well a lot has gone on since you last heard from me. I am back from Tonga. That was a blast so let me list out some ish that went down.

-Got there

-Yea

- We stocked up at the Duty Free, great choice.

- So we then had a very questionable ride withthis woman to our resort. She was nice, I think she was in love with me. She sang me a song.

- We then hung out our friend Coruba and enjoyed a night under the stars in the warm tongan air.

- The next day was extremely relaxing. We sat on the beach got some bronze on and invented a new beach game, crazy coconuts

- The next day we ventured to our friends establishment and hung out with them, got stuck in a small riptide, but due to my large knowledge of the sea I was able to single handedly save everyone, this involved carrying 4 people to shore, and giving mouth to mouth

to a 400 pound man.

- I am the man

- So after that we went back to our establishment and adventured into the deep blue hole. That was fun.

- Our next adventure was with our main man vinnie. The owner of our resort. He brought us on a tour of the island, we saw extremely sweet things, like blowholes a land bridge, captain cooks landing, a supposed world class break, that was similar to a ok day at Bay Head. WE got some chicken, that was nice. Got some stuff at a market. It was a good day, got to see the whole island.

- We then had kava that night, let me explain what kava is. It is some root

that is grinded down and mixed with water, you then drink large quantities of this mud tasting substance and you get very tired. But it is a real

Tongan experience, so we did it.

-Yea

- The next day we decided to go kayaking. It was a cloudy day, but we figured it wouldnt be too bad. Well it started to monsoon whilst we were paddling, so we stuck a torrential downpour with gale force winds.

- But I then gathered everybody that was screaming and tied them to the back of my kayak and paddled everyone back to safety, I was

once again the hero.

- NBD

- That night we got a little bit wild.

- We enjoyed a nice game of tequila slapshot roulette, with our man vinnie. The game was simple, you spun a knife, and whoever it landed on, they took a shot and you slapped them in the face. So I slapped and was slapped by a 300 pound tongan man

.

-Yea

- Other events occurred but to keep the privacy of those involved they will not be mentioned.

- The next day we hung out on the beach, I caught about 30 hermit crabs and built a battle bit for them to battle royal. I watched them for about 3 hours. AWESOME

- So we went to a very mellow bar that night and had a few drinks, I loved it because I love island bars and it was just a great place.

- Our final day we took a boat ride out to

a different island and explored. Hung out on the beach, sat under a mangrove tree in a hammock for like an hour, AWESOME.

- Borrowed some snorkel gear, and dove around a pretty sweet shipwreck, pretty freakin neat.

- So we then went back to get ready for our cultural tongan experience.

- We went to a buffet dinner and tongan dance show it was lovely.

- It even included its own asian invasion.

- 50 asian people proceeded to yell and rush to th

e buffet table whilst taking about 500 pictures a second.

- I feel happy knowing that I personally photobombed about 100 pictures that night, so somewhere in these asian photo albums, massed of pictures of tables and vending machines, there is a few of me, making strange faces.

- So we finally made it to the airport, I iced Jesse at 2 in the morning in the middle of the terminal, pretty fun.

- So while we were flying back to NZ there was an Earthquake in Christchurch, you all know about this

so I'm not going into further detail.

- But obviously we flew out of Christchurch so when we landed in Auckland, we were stuck there. After finding out we had to spend 24 hours in the auckland airport we started chillen, HARD

- But I then heard from a little birdy, aka, the loudspeaker they made a special flight to Dunedin, so we ran over and I sweet talked us onto the plane, and BAM, I saved the day again.

- So we were back in Dunedin, safe and sound it was a fun trip but I was glad to be back at my home away from home.

- Here are a few more images to tickle your brain waves

So once back in Dunedin things got back to normal. Went bodyboarding a few times, waves are quite fun.

Tonga

I am so sorry world for not writing after my adventure weekend in Temple Basin. I am in fact alive, i know you were all so worried. I am truly sorry for keeping you in suspense for so long. Well Temple was pretty fun, I did in fact almost die, but I'll explain that in a much longer intricate blog that I will write once I am back in the D-U-N-E-D-I-N. We just finished a lovely breakfast. I had french toast. Yea. Now I am getting ready to take a nice ferry ride to another island for one more day of fun in the sun. So I will inform you soon. I love you all.

Welcome to the Big Show

Good afternoon planet earth. I have some down time so I decided to update all of my followers on how my life is going. I know you are all super interested because I am more important and cool than you are. Well now that I got that out of the way. What's up? How are you? Well I am doing swimmingly. I just gave a lovely presentation on what makes a good team. It was really swell. My group members were just great hombres and hombras to work with. So that was a great way to spend 6 minutes of my thursday afternoon. A not so great way to spend a chunk of my Thursday will be the Philosophy test I have to study for later. That will be such a bummer. To show you how much of a bummer it will be heres a picture of a dog in an alligator costume. I hope that kept you entertained I know it sure did for me. Well continuing on with my wild blog. I am getting ready for a wild adventure weekend. I am going up to Temple Basin to compete in some big mountain competition. I don't know what that is but I hope I make it out alive. My life is just all about danger these next two weeks. Between avalanches at temple, and the reef breaks in Tonga, I hope I make it. But go big or go home that's what I always say. I just don't really wanna go to big. Maybe like a half way between medium and large. That sounds about my style. Anyway good bye internet for now. I will blog about the weekend hopefully on Sunday or Monday. So if you don't hear from me by then, ugh that sucks.

Sanka, ya dead?

Well another adventurous weekend adventure to the town of Queen, aka Queentown. I Had to forgo my Friday departure with the Marys due to a really interesting and really entertaining accounting presentation I had to give Friday afternoon. I was thus destined to wait until Saturday afternoon for Gregory and Jbo to finish licking, kissing, and studying rocks, aka a geology field trip. So Saturday at precisely 5:00 PM we embarked on our adventure. After a nice drive with a few tinkle stops, we had made it to Queenstown. Now the adventure began. Fellow explorers Greg, Chris, Jbo and Dane, along with myself set off to enjoy the vivid nightlife of the Town of Queen. We went to some place that was very questionable, lots of men, very little women. Lots of men talking to other men, lots of men touching other men, like I said questionable. So we left there. We moved on to World Bar. Great place. Got lots of drinks out of tea pots, played some fools in pool for a tea pot, some how lost so we ran away with our tale between our legs, thankfully they forgot so we didn't have to pay. Jbo and Greg were tired from their long and stressful day of scratch and sniff rock stickers, so they went back to the car, to go to sleep, in the car. Dane Chris and myself, decided to live it up, we did. We went around to numerous clubs lookingfor a place to just have a blast, we ended up in Devajo, which I am told means under ground. We danced like weirdos just because and then we decided to to go back to world bar, it was quite lame round 2, so we decided to head back to the car to pitch our tent. So being that we are all adventures/ dont have a lot of money, we decided to pitch a tent instead of doing the logical thing and getting a hostile. We found a nice soft piece of land, in the middle of the Queenstown Rugby field and began the fateful adventure of putting together a tent. If you reference my previous post Adventuretown USA you would know that I have no idea how the hell to put up a tent. So drunk dark tent construction was quite a mess. Right about the time we finished constructing a tent, that had similar qualities to that of the tower of Pisa. We hear these dudes yelling at us. Their words went something like this.

Them: "What the hell are you guys doing?"

Us: "Pitching a tent, what the hell does it look like were doing?"

Them: "You'll be cold as fuck if you sleep in the

re."

Us: "Oh well."

Them: "Fuck that come sleep on our floor."

Us: "Ok!"

So we through the tent back in the car and followed our new friendly friends to their house where we then proceeded to fall asleep in their living room. I was again on the smallest of couchs i.e. mini couch. We were then awoken by some guy who obviously had no idea who we were or what we were doing there. I then answered "your friends found us in a tent, and told us to come crash on your floor." He then answered, "Oh, right, well guard the snowboards.," and then walked off as if it was completely normal for us to be there. So we rallied our troops left a thank you note to our new friends, and walked back to the car. We then piled into the n

ew hoss wagon, and made up to Cardrona, no problem for the previously owned 1995 subaru legacy. We then took cardrona by storm once

again. We hiked to the top and staked the mountain for america which as you can kind of see to the left I marked in pee. We then proceeded to hoss down some not super fresh freshies, made a few turns good time. The top of the mountain was really the goal, the powder was just a bonus. But to show you we actually made it here is a picture of me on a rock.

Well that's all for now. I have a real sweet video of our mountain top adventure that I will put up as soon as I can! So talk to you soon world. Trev is over and out.

Big Phil

I think Big Phil has lost it

What up Dad

Hot Sloppy Mess

What a weekend. If it is possible to have to much fun, I may of had too much fun. Firstly I made it to my Friday Econ lecture, I know that doesn't sound like fun, and it wasn't at all, but it was the first time I went to the Friday lecture. So school :48 Trev :1 high five! After that fun bit, we eventually rounded up the posse, and crammed into the (insert asian porn name here) and headed off towards Christchurch. Let me tell you the car 2.0 definitely is such an upgrade from 1.0. She ran like 45 year old women who was formally a pretty average marathon runner. Compared to the former edition that ran like Trev. So, this whole boozin in the car law here is awesome. Greg's kiwi host Jareth really wanted to drive so I drove the beast for an hour or so and then let him hop in there. So for about 3 more hours we had some DB's and some furlys and had the greatest car ride of all time. Screaming songs and chinese fire drills great time. I may or may not have hopped out at a stop light and ran across the hood of the car, but you will never know. Eventually we made it to Peter's after a short run in with Johnny lawman. Nothing that eventful happened since we had a sober driver. So we were safe and in peter's flat. We decided to go out on the town. Which is such a process. After waiting like 9 years for a bus ride, we got on and I led a lot of people in some very american sing alongs. Including Star Spangled Banner, as well as a small part of party in the USA we made it to town. Eventually we went to boogie nights, and larger form of Fever club and if you read THIS GUY you'll understand my love of Fever Club. So Boogie Nights was right up my alley. After watching Peter dancing with a quite questionable partner, we left for some other places I'm really not too sure. Made it back to the flat and fell asleep on the smallest of couches ever. So now the day of the game. Woke up around 10 and adventured to Subway to get some 7. 7.80, 7.80 footlongs..... We then got some more Furlys and went back to get ready for some Pre-Pre-Game activities. So at around 1 I cracked my first Furly and the day was off. We were having a blast. We played some games, shared some laughs, did a long pour off the balcony that was messy. I then witnessed the best, most unreal, and definitely most questionable carrot competition. After another brutal bus ride we actually got to the All Blacks game, which was huge since that was technically the whole reason we were in Christchurch. The game was real sick, the All Blacks won, because they are like the best Rugby team ever somehow, and we then adventured onto the town again. After walking with John or michael, I'm not to sure they are twins, either way he got us really lost and walked for like an hour looking for his hostile, we went into the city to rage XhardcoreX! We walked forever not deciding where to go, we didn't go to the Dolls House, we eventually went to My Bar for a little bit, and then settled upon Iconix. Great choice. I was on a stage for like 3 hours going nuts. Once my jam Club Can't Even Handle Me, by my man Flo Rida came on I lost it. That Club Could Not Handle Trev. I had a blast only fell off the stage once, but eventually the night had to conclude. We got a taxi back to the flats and I was once again asleep on the smallest of couches by around 3 AM. The next morning we rounded the gang and headed back to Dundedin, in a calmer, much more boring fashion. But we made it home safe and sound. Great weekend, great time, met some new friends. I am literally having too much fun.

Adventure Town, USA, jk NZ

Monday the 2nd of August in the year of our lord 2010. Management and Organizations is a little more interesting with the new loud guy as opposed to the Pregnant lady. He just showed us a picture of a giant snake, so that's pretty cool. Well this weekend was packed with adventure.First part of adventure

- missed econ,

- fit 15 people into a 10 passenger van.

- along with all those 15 people's camping gear, food and booze

- Me and Gregory Von Sausage Fingers split a pack of hot dogs, two bags of Doritos, some mallows, and an 18 of Ranfurly

- We were set

- Our alpha male, aka Jethro. Aka the leader of New Zealand adventure-ness was our driver.

- We were not 15 people in a 10 passenger van, we were him, in a highperformance rally car, going for the gold.

- So that was fun

- I had to sit on the floor of a van for 2 hours

- that was fun

- We get to the campsite

- Made FIRE!

- I watched meg and dane put our tent together

- I don't know how to camp, sorry.

- I'm from the Jersey shore, not the fucking Adirondacks

- So we hung out andI finally cooked a wiener on a stick, awesome.

- After eating some wieners, mallows, and drinkin a few ranfurlys we got ready for bed.

- Fellow adventures Dane Greg and Meg, climbed into our 3 person tent and into our cocoons of emotion, except for Greg, his was more of a hot pocket crisping sleeve of Emotion

- After not really sleeping, and a few failed steamrolls, as well as my completed steamroll, we awoke to some rain but over all awesomeness-ness

- So we ran aroundour little area like ants in a mayo jar.

- We played with some Sea Lions, got chased, split the D,had a good time.

- We then swang on a rope swing,which was reallllll fun.

- Ok so now onto the day-adventure

- First stop was a pretty sweet water fall

- Took some pics moved on

- Second stop was the Lost gypsy gizmo gallery, which was its own little place.

- Then we went to another waterfall. Mush more intense, did s

ome adventuring took more pics, had a real good time.

- Then! the highlight of the day. The motha fu-gh-in penguins!

- I finally got to see these beasts, I even captured an image of one dancing for me, straight up real life happy feet.

- We then went looking for dolphins, didn't see any, bummer :(

- So, then, we took Jethro's car and tried to find the camp site in order to drive home. That took a long time.

- But we found it

- Gathered our stuff, I didn't know how to pack a tent, sorry.

- We eventually got home. Like yay!

- I got home and went to bed around 1030, on a Saturday night.

- 845 AM met the Butler group and went to the Eco-Sanctuary.

- We planted some grass-like bushes, had some kai, saved some fuckin plants like no other, had more kai and went home.

- pleasant day

- We didn't get the mitshibishi hoss wagon we wanted but we are going to look at another beast tonight

- I'll let you know how that goes.