{"id":396,"date":"2012-02-09T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2012-02-11T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T14:01:51","slug":"zorbing-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/zorbing-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"ZORBing in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my husband and I went to New Zealand<\/a>, one of the things on our “bucket” list was ZORBing (the sport of globe riding)*.\u00a0 I’ve seen it on the Amazing Race (my favourite reality TV show) and I just had to try it out for myself.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Being an adrenalin junky, I couldn’t wait to get there.\u00a0 I wasn’t sure what it was really all about, but I knew that I had to try it out.\u00a0 We arrived at Rotorua<\/a>\u00a0and followed the signs that took us directly to ZORB Rotorua (http:\/\/www.zorb.com\/zorb\/rotorua\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If you’ve never heard of it, or don’t know what it is, here is a quick description, with some pictures and a video of my husband and I ZORBing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Getting ready to go up<\/p><\/div>\n

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Top of the hill<\/p><\/div>\n

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All done!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Afterwards<\/p><\/div>\n

When you arrive at the top of the hill, you enter a giant ball, which is filled with water (or you can choose the dry version).\u00a0 The ball gets released and you go “swooshing” around in the giant ball until you stop at the bottom of the hill.\u00a0 Straight forward, right? To be honest, it wasn’t really scary.\u00a0 When\u00a0you’re sliding around in that ball, you have no idea of what’s really going on (which is a good thing in this type of situation) and you’re never upside down (I’m sure there’s some sort of science logic to this like gravity or something ,but I’m not a scientist, so don’t ask me).<\/p>\n

Here’s a video of my husband in the ZORB.\u00a0 Advance apologies for my laughter… you’ll see \/ hear\u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n