There were no orcs on the two hour trek thankfully, but learning to trot felt exciting enough for me... Terrifying. Why would you want to go faster and lift your bum up as you do it?? The closer to the ground and the slower the speed i am, the better if you ask me... Especially when your horse starts getting fed up with his friend's head getting too close to his bum and tries to kick him back and try to buck... Marcia from our group got to canter up front on the glamourous princely horse aptly named Harry. He's also a film star from the remake of Prince Caspian, which the geek in me thought was simply awesome.
The whole walk was amazing, though. The views were just crazy. Mary said to me from her horse behind me that it was hard to believe we are actually here, experiencing this, and she's so right. I'm not sure I will ever quite be able to take it all in. I can assure you those lotr backdrops are real.
In the afternoon, Sofia and I invented our own extreme sport - ice cream eating. Aka we bought ourselves the flavours in the Magnum special edition 5 kisses range and Sofia, Mike and I quickly demolished 2 each. The conclusion was unanimous - the apple crumble was AMAZING. Feeling pretty proud of our risk taking.
My afternoon was completed with couple of rounds of pool, a stroll down Lake Wakatipu and a spontaneous sprint race against Mike (which I as good as won, dont let him tell you any different...). Did warm me up too, which was a bonus. I'm becoming one of those annoying people who has spent so much time being warm, 20 degrees feels too cold. I'm sorry, I promise I hate myself too.
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