Nice and Fitness

Saturday, as Kirsten and I were running we saw one of her students. Her student, Riana, yelled out her window, “Miss! You look nice and fitness!”! Let me tell you, our entire weekend was about fitness.

Friday

On Friday we spent the entire day at the beach once again. I’m really enjoying these relaxing weekends after chaotic weeks, especially the ones on the beach. Anyways, at the beach it was full of excitement and active things. Tawharanui beach happened to be my favorite of them all. It was gorgeous and was a lot more secluded than the rest of the beaches we had been to.

Since we were at the beach, of course we were going to swim a lot. I ended up swimming further than I can touch so I ended up treading water for quite some time until I could swim against the current enough to touch. 

We also did a heck of a lot of boogey boarding! I had forgotten how much I love boogey boarding. The waves were huge and I had forgotten how hard it is to get out far enough to catch the good waves to ride them in. Let me tell you, with the power of the waves it was a work out!

Next we did a lot of walking and climbing. Around the area there were a lot of rocks that we could climb on getting in touch with our inner child. There were plenty of rocks to have some A Little Mermaid action going on. It was pretty cool. There were also caves that we could walk through that had waves splashing through and smaller caves the tide didn’t cover that were full of HUGE crabs. I’ll admit it freaked me out a little. It was pretty awesome.

Emily was digging holes in the wet sand as the waves came up to stick her feet in. Her hole got pretty big so she became a midget. It just made me laugh so I had to post it. I've never felt so tall before in my life!  

This was completely unrelated to fitness, but with the group we went to dinner and then saw the movie The Vow. For dinner we went to a bar that had some pretty yummy food for the most part. I got some chicken nuggets that were absolutely disgusting (they were soggy in the middle. We all know that they are not supposed to be that way).  Then I got some potato wedges that were scrumptious. I was expecting a little side of them, but it came in a wicker basket with enough to share between 5 people. A few other girls got them as well so we had more than enough wedges to go around. The food took us so long to get that we were going to miss our movie. We were all in need of a chick flick so we wanted to take our food to go. Of course, the place did not have to go boxes. Girls put their food in napkins, but I had just gotten my mound of wedges so I couldn’t exactly do that. I ran back to the van to grab a container that I could put them in. When I was coming back I saw the girls and James with their heads down walking quickly because James said it was okay to take the baskets with us. He apparently told the girls that those baskets are super cheap and they can get new ones. So yes, we took the baskets that we were probably not supposed to take. No worries though we made it to the movie! When the movie was over we all about freaked out cause the ending was…not so great. The movie would have been relatively okay if it didn’t end the way it did. I’m glad I saw it, but I wouldn’t ever see it again.

Saturday

Kirsten and I (along with a few other girls) are going to be running a 6K in a week! I am not a runner so this is a big deal, a very big deal. We have been trying to go running often but it is so hard to go running after a long day at the schools when your exhausted and it’s a sauna outside. Thank goodness for Saturday mornings! We went for a nice run. When I say nice I really mean hard. I don’t ‘think there is a single flat area in all of New Zealand. We were running up hill then down hill, and then repeating that over and over again. Not exactly pleasant but we did it…most of it. As we were out for our run that’s when her cute student Riana yelled out the window, “Miss! You look nice and fitness”! I love that the children here are polite enough to call us Miss. 

Then we did some basic abdominal workouts and some stretching. The stretching was by far my favorite part of the entire thing! So relaxing and enjoyable, plus this actually felt good.

That night Phyllis was out with her brother so Kirsten and I made dinner for us. After an intense weekend we made ourselves a delicious hardy meal. We made some BBQ chicken, creamed corn, green beans with soy sauce, and rice. Since we are in New Zealand you can’t just have a meal, you must have dessert. So, for dessert we had some chocolate fondue, sponge cake cut into cubes, and bananas. MmmMmm good. 

Then we invited Kirsten, Emily, and Elyse over for a girls night. We painted fingernails and watched Catch Me If You Can. Emily and Kirsten (my roommate) had never seen it so we had to watch it! Such a good movie.