How I spend my free time.......
So, being the lazy traveler that I am I have lots of free time. I do work but my work takes up about 24 hours of my whole week with an odd job thrown in every once in a while. How do I fill the remaining hours you might ask.......Well, glad you did! If you can't find me working then you will find me either at a party or preparing for a party. Now these aren't just small quaint get togethers or New Zealand style parties where you grab a couple friends, some weed and a box of wine (yes I said a BOX of wine). These are fun, fancy dress parties that we backpackers and our lovely hosts think up to fill our time!!!
First up in the past couple of weeks was the PIRATE PARTY. Now, why would we have a pirate party? Because it was International Talk like a Pirate Day and it happened to fall on a Friday! I mean do you really need a better excuse? So, off to the 2 Cheap store to find all our ridiculous costume bits and of course lots of crazy make up! Now I find that most people like to dress up and have a bit of silly fun but really lack the motivation or knwo how! That is where I come in!!!! I took a group of South Americans, Germans, and British by the hands and personally helped them assemble all their various fiddley bits! And WOW what a crazy night! It started up in our roomms where we had to all help each get dressed and I actually had a line of people going out my door waiting for me to paint scars, tattoos and piratey facial hair on them! The end results were pretty funny! We ended up down in our beloved bar packed with pirates, good music and free rum punch! That night was out of control. Of course it also introduced me to CK (crazy Kiwi) a fun, handsome but completey insane Kiwi guy that will not stop texting and calling me. I mean I know that I am fun on the dacne floor and a great kisser but really can you fall in love with someone in one night? Apparently for Kiwi guys it is possible! Oh well.......next party!
A couple of days later saw a large group coming into town who decided to have a Retro Fluro party in our beloved bar. Now this was another excuse to break out the paint and really what else was I going to do with my Tuesday night? So, take the internationals by the hand and go to the shop again! And fluro night it is!!! This time we decided that face paint and body paint would be the order of the night. Again I had a line out my door of people waiting to be made up. After about an hour of up pleading we even talked a wonderful Chilean guy into going in just his fluro swim trunks and letting us paint the rest of his body! Imagine! A German, Scottish and American girl hand painting your whole body for about 45 minutes ;) I think he really enjoyed himself!! We ended up having a party upstairs whilst getting ready and nearly didn't make it down to the beloved bar! However, eventually we stumbled down painted and wigged and ready to dance! Whewwww need to rest a week or two before we do that again or we could do togas :)
So, the next week saw us pulling our bed sheets off and getting ready to have an old fashion toga party! Did I say that the beloved bar offered a $50 bar tab for the most creative toga? This prompted the guys into all sorts of crazy behaviour! One completely nuts Brazilian even wanted to go down in a sort of mankini toga that was jsut all sort so wrong! Luckily after pulling myself off the floor from laughing at the site of him.....I was able to talk him out of exposing quite so much of his....well Brazilianess ;) One of our lads (a sort of very tall and well built Orlando Bloom type from England) decided to do sort of female toga look complete with breasts. He came in third and had to keep running away from all the guys grabbing his boobs all night. It was great fun. However, jsut a warning.......wehn you assemble your toga, make sure you can properly move and dance! Had to make a couple of adjustments once I got out onto the dance floor and thought I was going to completely lose my toga at one point but Orlando came to the rescue ;)
So, now the place is quiet once again and thinking about the next fancy dress party......hmmmmm..pj party might be fun......
So, being the lazy traveler that I am I have lots of free time. I do work but my work takes up about 24 hours of my whole week with an odd job thrown in every once in a while. How do I fill the remaining hours you might ask.......Well, glad you did! If you can't find me working then you will find me either at a party or preparing for a party. Now these aren't just small quaint get togethers or New Zealand style parties where you grab a couple friends, some weed and a box of wine (yes I said a BOX of wine). These are fun, fancy dress parties that we backpackers and our lovely hosts think up to fill our time!!!
First up in the past couple of weeks was the PIRATE PARTY. Now, why would we have a pirate party? Because it was International Talk like a Pirate Day and it happened to fall on a Friday! I mean do you really need a better excuse? So, off to the 2 Cheap store to find all our ridiculous costume bits and of course lots of crazy make up! Now I find that most people like to dress up and have a bit of silly fun but really lack the motivation or knwo how! That is where I come in!!!! I took a group of South Americans, Germans, and British by the hands and personally helped them assemble all their various fiddley bits! And WOW what a crazy night! It started up in our roomms where we had to all help each get dressed and I actually had a line of people going out my door waiting for me to paint scars, tattoos and piratey facial hair on them! The end results were pretty funny! We ended up down in our beloved bar packed with pirates, good music and free rum punch! That night was out of control. Of course it also introduced me to CK (crazy Kiwi) a fun, handsome but completey insane Kiwi guy that will not stop texting and calling me. I mean I know that I am fun on the dacne floor and a great kisser but really can you fall in love with someone in one night? Apparently for Kiwi guys it is possible! Oh well.......next party!
A couple of days later saw a large group coming into town who decided to have a Retro Fluro party in our beloved bar. Now this was another excuse to break out the paint and really what else was I going to do with my Tuesday night? So, take the internationals by the hand and go to the shop again! And fluro night it is!!! This time we decided that face paint and body paint would be the order of the night. Again I had a line out my door of people waiting to be made up. After about an hour of up pleading we even talked a wonderful Chilean guy into going in just his fluro swim trunks and letting us paint the rest of his body! Imagine! A German, Scottish and American girl hand painting your whole body for about 45 minutes ;) I think he really enjoyed himself!! We ended up having a party upstairs whilst getting ready and nearly didn't make it down to the beloved bar! However, eventually we stumbled down painted and wigged and ready to dance! Whewwww need to rest a week or two before we do that again or we could do togas :)
So, the next week saw us pulling our bed sheets off and getting ready to have an old fashion toga party! Did I say that the beloved bar offered a $50 bar tab for the most creative toga? This prompted the guys into all sorts of crazy behaviour! One completely nuts Brazilian even wanted to go down in a sort of mankini toga that was jsut all sort so wrong! Luckily after pulling myself off the floor from laughing at the site of him.....I was able to talk him out of exposing quite so much of his....well Brazilianess ;) One of our lads (a sort of very tall and well built Orlando Bloom type from England) decided to do sort of female toga look complete with breasts. He came in third and had to keep running away from all the guys grabbing his boobs all night. It was great fun. However, jsut a warning.......wehn you assemble your toga, make sure you can properly move and dance! Had to make a couple of adjustments once I got out onto the dance floor and thought I was going to completely lose my toga at one point but Orlando came to the rescue ;)
So, now the place is quiet once again and thinking about the next fancy dress party......hmmmmm..pj party might be fun......
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