I know, two blog entries waiting for you on waking up! But don't get to excited, as you can see, today's entry isn't gonna be a barrel of laughs. After the Thermal Village, we both went to bed early-ish to get up at five to hopefully get a full day's hiking up at Mount Ngauruhoe, which was used by Peter Jackson as Mount Doom in Lord of the Rings. We're both pretty psyched about this, me for the hike and Jason for the location.

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