The lost long weekend

I've been really busy lately and haven't had time to write on my blog, so I have a few posts floating around in my head (which is a some what dangerous thing) so here's the on about the long weekend in the not too distant past.....

A group of us went to Kupunda for the day. Whats there you ask..... not much, but it sure is pretty.
Well we started the day by eating lunch, we decided to go picnic style and ate at the park. While we were there I confronted my too fears head on... Trains and spiders.... well kind of at least. There was an old steam train all set up for the kids to play on and I climbed aboard - fear 1 out of the way, now for fear 2, well it was close enough rather then a spider it's self it was one of those spiderweb climbing frames and I climbed up it - fear 2 done. now that I was invincible the day could continue.

After lunch we went to the information center and had a look around down stairs. There was this exhibit that had a map of Kupunda and surrounding towns, and when you pushed a button it lit up and showed you different things, so we made ourselves a mini disco... so funny!

Anyways we kept moving our next destination the Kupunda open cut copper mine... but on the way we stopped off to look at an antique shop, were I found the best birthday present for Dad, (but I can't tell you what it is because it's not his birthday yet).

So we make it to the mine eventually and we go exploring, it was awesome.... we climbed down the side and went looking, climbing and jumping about. We found a little tunnel and lots of holes, a dead spider and a live one, and lots of green rocks (because of the copper). The mine tapered out to flat ground at the end were a few of the guys jumped these massive cracks in the ground, so I tried too......
I ran and then jumped, (you know the feeling were it's like time stands still and your mind is thinking and calculating at a million miles an hour, well that happened at this moment). I just knew I wasn't going to make it, luckily the cracks weren't that deep so its not like I was falling to my death, but I was going to fall. My tips of my toes reach the other side then I slid scrapping my leg, landing on my hands. I personally wasn't that hurt my leg was a little sore and i had a few little rocks inbeded in my hand and my pants were covered in dirt and dust, but my ego was the most battered. Ouch!

But over all it was a great day out.