That’s right. I’m still in New Zealand, but the vacation part of my trip is over. We might go on a few more quick day trips while I’m here, but the full on act-like-a-tourist, eat-whatever-I-want, have-so-much-fun-I-can’t-stand-it vacation stuff is over. It was a super fun week.
Today we went to the last thing I wanted to see, which was something involving volcanic/thermal activity. If I am going to be around all these volcanoes I might as well see some cool stuff. So we went to Wai-o-Tapu Geothermal Wonderland in the Wai-o-Tapu area of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, which is about halfway between Taupo and Rotorua. We went there mainly because they have a geyser that erupts every day at 10:15 (with some help from soap). I’ve never seen a geyser, so it was pretty cool for the first couple minutes.
After we saw the geyser we walked through the park to see all the different types of activity.
Kepa had fun standing on and touching things he probably shouldn’t have. (Okay, I touched the water in a few places too. Shhh.)
It was a pretty interesting little adventure, and now I never have to go to anything like that again since my curiosity is satisfied. Today we took full advantage of the fact that it was our last day of proper vacation. In other words, we once again ate terribly. For breakfast I had toast with peanut butter and honey and then for lunch we had fish and chips:
This was followed by the two of us splitting FOUR desserts. Yes four. This is what evolved from the beginning of our dessert choosing when I asked if Kepa wanted to split one or each get our own. Instead we each got two of our own then shared.
OMG, right? Half was delicious and then the other two were so so. We ended up only eating about half, as you can assess from the damage we did.
We also ate pizza for dinner and split a piece of cheesecake. Ah, not exactly the way you lose weight people. (Is this even a weight loss blog anymore? Geez!) But vacation eating is so lovely and I will miss it.
Now that I’m back in Auckland I’m ready to just hang around, meet more people (Kepa’s friends), get back to working out and eating healthy. I weigh in tomorrow and I can tell you now that it is a gain. Even though we both ate on similar levels of crappiness (weight loss wise) the last week I do believe Kepa will post a loss while I post a gain. It’s quite depressing when I think about how easy it is for me to regain weight. I can gain 5 lbs in a week and then it will take me a month to lose that. Oh well! It is what it is and tomorrow I’m hopping back on the weight loss train. I’m going back to eating healthy things and will figure out how to challenge myself with workouts. My back is feeling better and after resting a bit today I should be ready to go. I’ll post more about how I decide to tackle this later when I post my weigh in results. I’m just ready to get going and make things happen.
