GKPE, Taupo Jousting!

A bit of an odd one this, and it requires some travel.

There is a Jousting tournament in Taupo over Waitangi weekend, thats the 4th and 5th of February.

Ill be heading down with Amanda and some friends to watch and staying at a camp ground in Rotorua or Taupo.
You are of course all welcome to join us, it will be cheap accomdation, about $15-20 per person a night.

There is of course lots else to see and do around there, the scenery of course is fantastic.

Anyone interested in an alternative trip?
The camp ground in Rotorua is very family friendly, and if we stay in Taupo it will be somewhere similar.

I have a wedding to shoot that weekend

*bump*

Sounds very.. interesting!

I will have to leave it untill way closer to the time to know my avail..

Will be lots of fun I think, even if the Jousting is boring, theres lots else to see and do down there.

Heres a link to the Jousting details: http://www.jousting.co​.nz/

I'm interested, I'll talk to the other half and let you know closer to the time.

Hmmm I would be in but will be in recovery mode from shooting Parachute the weekend before!

That's all good, I'll just use your gear.

I might email Parallel Imported tonight, but don't really know what to say. I'm not a pushy guy anymore, after being in front line customer service for 5 years.

Wazza wrote:
, after being in front line customer service for 5 years.

Iv done it for longer (nearly 10 years) and I know what I would be saying to them, and it would no longer be polite.
Being in CS just teachs you how better to handle other CS people, for example don't get angry with the people on the front line because they can't do anything, instead use them to get to the people higher up the ladder, and then have "polite" words with them.
If the company cares about its customers then they will do something, if they don't then you ring the commerce commission

Wazza wrote:
That's all good, I'll just use your gear.

I might email Parallel Imported tonight, but don't really know what to say. I'm not a pushy guy anymore, after being in front line customer service for 5 years.

Sweet, if I haven't killed it as well!

3 days camping is pretty relaxing

Yeah, just thik of it as 3 relaxing days away camping, while listening to nice soft gospel music........actually I'm not sure which would be worse, what I have just described, or the real thing.

You can listen to AC/DC in a Cabin then

Moppie wrote:
You can listen to AC/DC in a Cabin then

I can listen to what ever music I want too, I'm smart, I'm staying offsite! I also wear ear plugs, standing in front of a 20m stack of speakers driven by 50000 watts of amp doesn't do too well for the old hearing.

I thought after doing it for several years would have found somewhere more comfrotable than a tent to stay in
50,000watts is a lot of Christianity!

Moppie wrote:
I thought after doing it for several years would have found somewhere more comfrotable than a tent to stay in
50,000watts is a lot of Christianity!

It is an interesting atmopshere, if you wandered in off the street, you would pick it for just another music festival, lots of music (mostly loud), people everywhere, food stands wtc, its not until you look deeper...