New Plymoth

We're sitting here in the library right now because its to cold, windy and miserable to surf. We made our way down to new plymoth to try to catch the swell which has proved more minimal than expected...tomorrow's looking better. So far after getting the van, we drove down to raglan and gave it a check and it was tiny. We've had some good, bad, and funny things happen to us so far... first of all getting the van for so cheap and everything we wanted aka diesel and a bed was amazing. it definatly got our spirits high to start. Within ten minutes, I was on the wrong side of the road. We've gotta remember not to make american left hand turns here! Luckily there wasn't anyone coming our way that time. After laughing for 10 minutes, we were on our way. After surfing terrible raglan, we headed into hamilton to go to the temple. I went with a group of maori's to do baptism's which was epic. truely an experience. Another cool thing was that we got to go to the last stake conference of the temple view ward that would be held in the church college here since demolition is set for the beginning of next year. After church we snuck into the stake picture to be forever remembered as members of the temple view stake. Stoked. On the way out we decided to ghetto rig some board racks inside the car so we could put some above and have extra room under. As we were raiding a pile of wood in the maintenance yard, the janitor drove in, locked the gate, and went into his little house in the yard to sleep. After being locked in there for 3 and a half hours with no luck of waking the big maori fella, we found someone with a key. Off to new plymoth! We stayed that night in a little town just north of NP... Stars like you cant believe. New Zealand is truely a magical place. The next morning on our way to check the surf at fitzroy, we stopped by the petrol station to fill up as we were running low. After pulling up and paying for gas, taylor ran into the bathroom. Since our van is diesel and we were at a petrol pump I ran in to ask the lady to switch us to the next pump over. After waiting a while for the lady to come to the desk, taylor got out and we walked outside...to find that she had filled our tank for us. With Petrol! Now we had $30 of petrol in our tank and we couldn't start our engine. We used a pump to get all of it out and two hours later we arived at fitzroy, to late to surf. We're hoping for waves tomorrow but if not its off to coramandal to find surf there. There's a huge storm coming in on thursday and we don't wannna be around for it. Enjoy the pics!