I don’t know why but I love a bit of Boules. I think we used to play it a lot when I was little and we went to the beach. So i’ve been keen to get a game in at some point this holiday! Since we’d acquired a new member of Team Taumaranui today, Sarah, a local living American girl ( I think she was a bit keen on Josh ) we had enough people for a game of Rocks in the hot sun :) … And a bit more red wine.
We actually arrived at our destination today at 11.30 in the morning! Josh was keen to be the first group to get here so he could bags his preferred bunking position in the hut, me and Nicky preferred the look of the nicely tiered campsite. Anyhow we had a lot of time to kill, we saw some other happy campers playing with a boules set, so in a fit of jealousy we decided to make our own :) Seems they call the game petanque over here, we named our home made version School of Rock, as we had to teach the boys how to play and other obvious reasons.
After the success of our first game of boules, for New Years Eve we decided to step it up a notch… With hand sized rocks! Very satisfying to smash down on someone else’s rock with a nice weighty one. Chipping and pulverizing were totally allowed. These two can chuck pretty hard though, had to keep steering us away from the Marae DOC Hut windows! ;) Awesome to be outside in the warm evening sun for new year’s. Pretty cool.
While we were having a swim, we used the opportunity to hand-pick or favorite rocks for a re-match of School of Rock, now dubbed King of Rock, because we’re all experts now.
As we cranked up the evening’s festivities a serious game of Popcorn Poker got underway. Ollie had packed us some popcorn with which to experiment on the camp fire. But until then they served us well as currency for the big bluff-off!
It’s actually called Eat Poop You Cat (we’ve always wrongly called it as ‘Cat Eat Poop’ though..), it’s a surrealist game a bit like 
Anders and I cooked up a booze-sponge ‘safety dinner’, consisting of giant-sized lamb meatballs, and a vat of spaghetti big enough to drown a horse in. Amazing :) Not very easy to eat in a demure fashion when you’re pissed. But it hit the spot good and proper.
Bum sex makes my cat cry..