Updates of everything that happened in the last few days.

So Friday was the death of the great King of Pop; Michael Jackson. Such a shame, right before his last tour too. R.I.P Michael! However, something intrigues me. That night at work; before I got there, ALL of our stock of Michael Jackson CD's and DVD's sold out!, which is amazing, cause we rarely sold his stuff before his death (I work in the Music/entertainment section). I dunno why, but it seems people actually care to buy and watch his music and music videos MORE than they ever did. Though I s'ose it's because they want a piece of music history. Though, for me, the intriguing thing is why if you're a huge fan only JUST brought his music now?! Shouldn't you already have it? Cause I do....ohwell, to each his own. Seriously, he was so popular on Friday and Saturday at work, every second customer asked for him, and each time we had to say, we sold out. Haha, was getting a little sick of it to be honest.

Sunday to Tuesday we had a school trip for my history and the geography class about...well it took us 8 hours, but probably a 3 or 4 hour drive south of Auckland into the middle of nowhere called Waitomo (meaning Water Entrance in english) The trip as a whole, was quite boring, however the caves were pretty interesting. One is called the Ruakuri Caves (Den of the dogs)full of stalactites and stalagmites; pretty and contains glow worms and suspended walkways. Wanna know where the name came from? No? Well too bad. So Maori were hunting birds for food, but these two dogs came and attacked them where they lived in the cave. The chief (?) was angry as the hunters had dropped the birds and told them to go back for them, however they killed the dogs and ate them. That's where the name came from. Now, this entrance way was used as a burial ground but now a tapu (sacred) has been placed and is now closed off to all. There is now a new entrance for visitors to use. I suppose the bodies/remains are still there. Stories tell of the caves original owner lit as fire on the grounds after the tapu was placed. Him and his relatives died in separate fires. We Maori believe something bad will happen if you break the tapu; kind of like karma....so was the deaths a coincidence or something else?

There's a trail in the caves called, the Ghost Trail (just cause the temperature drops; there is a logical reason for this though). I went ghost hunting, took some photo's and orbs showed up. One in particular was a bright orb and I couldn't figure out what it was from. I took another, nothing showed up. Did I catch a ghost? For the record, the lens and flash were clean, there wasn't anything the flash could have reflected off...haha I don't really believe in ghosts, unless I have proof. Apparently, a ghost DOES inhabit these caves; a Maori chief is said to sit and watch visitors coming through the cave, to look out for the maintenance of the cave, to watch over like a guardian. True or not, I don't know, a medium picked up the spirit a few months ago. I'll prob post the orb photo soon.

Anyhoo, the trip wasn't all amazing, the glow worm caves were lame as the river had risen from the rain. To top it off, I managed to get myself pretty sick again...so lame! The burgers were good though.

Got back Tuesday night....

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