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It's silly season

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Christmas has been and gone and as usual I'm late in writing blog posts....but silly season is upon us so here's my December catch up! My friend Dan runs this awesome website called waywiser.co.nz.  It's similar to Meet Up, but more specialised for certain activities so I've been getting involved in an attempt to meet new people and have cool adventures.  Dan, Sam and I joined a night orienteering trip posted on the site a couple of weeks back which was a lot of fun - a guy called Paul is massively into orienteering and decided to run a free trip for anyone who wanted to learn how to do it.  So we set off after work to Duder Regional Park just before the sun set, and he taught us how to read topo maps and use compasses.  We navigated to lots of points on the map even after darkness fell, some more prepared than others with head torches until it got late and we needed to head back to Auckland.  I enjoyed it so much that I went out and bought a compass the next day :)

Beaches, pools and a silo cinema

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I've just got in from a real nice afternoon spent on the beach - me Ben and Sam took a drive up to Tawharanui (said Taffa-ra-nooee) and chilled out on the beach, climbed some rocks and had a good yarn.   We didn't get out there till the afternoon as some of us were recovering from a pretty awesome pool party at Sam's house last night.  I never imagined I'd be piled in a sauna fully clothed with 14 other people singing Bohemian Rhapsody.   I now bare a scar on my bum from getting a bit too close to the heating elements in the sauna, ooops.   Colin got very drunk and was probably my highlight of the evening - along with finding a snail in Sam's bedroom and putting it on Shanyn's face. The past week has been pretty boozy actually, though I have been trying to be sensible.  On Wednesday I had my work xmas do - we did lawn bowls and had to get into teams and do fancy dress.  Our team name was 'The Bowling Stones' (courtesy of a google