Lake Mahinapua, the poo party...

After Nelson we headed out to Lake Mahinapua, a place we had all heard a lot about as it is where the famous poo parties are held. An 86 year old kiwi guy called Les owns this strange little place in the middle of nowhere, cooks up a feast for everyone then holds a fancy dress party in his pub. He does this everyday and has done so for years especially for the kiwi experience buses. We were given the theme of plastic bags with which would could do whatever we liked. We stopped at a few stores on the ways to pick up supplies and after we found pink and purple bin bags 3 of us decided to go as barbie dolls so then went on the hunt for tiaras and pink lipstick. We arrived at our hostel later that afternoon where we were greeted by Les who was an interesting man with some rather old fashioned view points and opinions but seemed pretty fun and harmless. Once in our room we were quick to get on with our costumes, we were all pretty keen to win. Connie, Lottie and I were pretty proud of our barbie doll costumes, its amazing what you can do with some bin bags. Also in our little group of nine we had a crayola crayon, a panda, the men in black and of course keeping it current we had our very own royal wedding with a bin bag version of Kate and Will. We had to leave our costumes for a bit as our feast was ready. We all waited in line whilst Les slopped a huge steak on everyone's plates and the bus drivers filled up the remainder of our plates with veg, pasta and venison casserole. Now nicely full we finished off our costumes and headed out to the party. There were some interesting costumes and it all got a bit hot with a small pub packed full of people wearing nothing but bin bags but we had a pretty good night.