Day 144 Taupo, New Zealand

There were 2 things I considered doing today and I ended up doing neither of them.
First was going to visit Orakei Korako which is another thermal area although after going to one a few days ago I guessed once you’ve seen one then you’ve seen them all. The other thing I was interested in doing was going out on a kayak to see some Maori carvings but I missed the first outing and they were not doing 2 trips per day until the day we left. So it looked like it was going to be another uneventful day until Simon asked if I was interested in going for a round of golf. At first I wasn’t really to bothered but thought anything would be better than sitting around the hostel for another day.
We drove to the golf course and it was absolutely packed with people, and of the 2 courses they have one of them had a competition on it. We spoke to some people working at the golf course if it would be a problem seeings as we haven’t ever played properly before and they didn’t seem bothered at all so after hiring some clubs and buying some balls we were on our way. Some 3 hours later we finally finished to mine and probably everyone elses amazement we hadn’t managed to upset anyone and had somewhat of a good time. The even better thing was that we only ended up paying for 9 holes of golf instead of 18 and soon made a quick getaway before anybody noticed.