Raglan and the Fat Cat

This week Megs and I headed off ot Raglan. It's about an hour and 45 minutes to the East of Waihi. We pulled into town and were amazed by the amount of people that were there. There was some reggae festival going on that weekend and there were tons of people hanging out in the streets. We went outside of town to hit the beach. There are supposed to be amazing surfer beaches in Raglan and we found one called Whale Bay. The beach was really rocky and not the kind of beach you would swim at, but there were quite a few surfers there. It was so cool to watch them. Then we went to the swimming beach and hung out there all day. It felt wonderful. It was gorgeous weather! That night Megan and I had fish-n'-chips for dinner and watched the sunset in a park looking over the Tasman Sea. There was also a juggling contest going on as well as a lot of random unicyclists! We then hopped in our trusty van and headed toward the beach to camp there for the night. The next day we did some shopping around Raglan and headed to Bridal Veil Falls. The falls were amazing! Check out the pics of it on my picture website. After that we headed through Hamilton (one of the bigger cities), did some shopping and went back to Waihi.
That night, Megan came flying over to Carolyn's house (my cooperating teacher). She found me there and said, "thank God your here!" I asked what was up and she told me that she had left her house doors open to air it out and a HUGE cat had wondered in. She tried scaring it out, but instead it hissed at her, ran all over the countertops and into her bedroom where it was now stuck under her bed! She said she had been poking at it for 2 hours! It was now like 9:30 p.m. I went over there and sure enough there was 2 huge green eyes under the bed. This cat was big and mean and did not want to move. Finally Kristy, my flatmate, and her brother Matt came to our rescue. The three of us girls lifted the bed up and Matt pushed it out with a mop. It ran out and finally outside. What an ending to a busy weekend!