Sometimes I HATE my body.

I hate when it doesn’t work like I want it to.

I hate when it hurts.

I hate when it’s not as good and as fit and as awesome as it could be.

Like today.  I hate my body.

I know, you probably are confused.  “Isn’t this the girl who is always talking about positive self-esteem and loving her body?”  Well, yeah, I am.  But this has nothing to do with appearance.  It is purely physical.  And it sucks.

After bungy jumping my back was a bit sore because of whiplash or whatever but after a couple days it seemed to be gone.  Then I woke up today with a super sore back that feels overly uncomfortable and hurts in certain situations.  I must have slept in the wrong position because it totally through me out of whack.  And this whole situation sucks because today we were supposed to be going mountain biking and do more kayaking.  Yet we aren’t because both of these things will hurt.  I’ve done some stuff today but nothing where I had to use my back muscles.

Because my back is sore and ruining my fun I am hating my body. Or okay, maybe I’m just hating my back.  But having a body that you can’t use to do the things you want to do sucks.  No way around that little fact of life.

Hopefully by tomorrow my back will get a clue and stop hurting so I can go do some crazy fun stuff.  And then I will get back to loving my body an what it can do.

Even though I’ve been a step short of invalid, we did do some fun stuff today.  Like playing mini golf!  We’ve apparently developed a love for putt putt and have played pretty much every course in Rotorua.  Yesterday that’s what the majority of our day was, plus batting cage action!  Some of the courses weren’t as fun, like when I was losing:

But then some were AWESOME, like the one where I caught a BUNNY!  Yeah!  Best mini golf course ever – they just had this cute bunny hopping around while you were playing.  He was my new friend… for a few seconds, then he started kicking to get down.  But I loved him.

Because of my back stuff we couldn’t go do some things today, but I could strap myself in to another thrill ride.  We went back to the Luge here in Rorotua for a few more runs and while we were there we also did the SKY SWING!  Let me tell you – that is pretty scary.  I had no idea what to expect before going on it, so when they were lifting our cage up to the point where it drops the anticipation was killing me.  Then once we dropped down to swing across it became fun again and I was able to laugh through the rest of the swing.

Pictures are nice, but not nearly as cool as the video. Check it out, but be warned – there is profanity.

Apparently Kepa and I are adventure junkies.  We are both ready to try all these new cool, crazy activities.   We saw several skydivers today and can’t wait to do that.  But as we are both around the weight limit we have to wait on that activity. We’ve kind of got a list going of things we want to try or do again.   I love doing these things the first time.  There is a nervous anticipation that will never again be matched.  The release is part of the thrill and I love it sooo much.  I love doing things for the first time.

The sky swing was a first for me today, as was eating Eggs Benedict.  I’ve never tried eggs that way but I understand why people love it.  So delicious!  Add that to the lovely vacation eating, picture included!

After eating that for brunch, since we ate around 11, we decided to eat ice cream too and then skip lunch. We’ve had ice cream several times in the last couple of days in Rotorua.

For dinner we headed to a Italian place, Nuvolari. We split garlic bread and arancini for starters…

… and then I had a chicken fettucine, and ate a bit of Kepa’s pizza too…

… and we finished by splitting two desserts and I had a hot chocolate. Yum!

I told you I’ve been eating yummy food. Now you get to drool over it yourself.  Congratulations.

So… a little adventure… a little pain… a little bit of delicious food.  Yep, I am The Back Pain Having, Good Food Eating, Adventure Junkie.  You can call me Mary for short.

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