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Our next and final assignment is a 4 day locum in Levin, about an hour north of Wellington on the East Coast of the North Island. Levin is a little farming community/beach town with THE COOLEST PLAYGROUND ON EARTH, or at least the coolest in the South hemisphere for sure! It’s called the Adventure Park and this place, I am sure, provides the doctors here with scores of injuries. And it’s free. With free BBQs and a little train that takes kids around it. There are multiple rope course type stations and a big wheel that spins inside a block of concrete. But the best feature of all is the double flying fox (T-bar zip line that you ride on). Who can resist a zipline? Especially one that seems like it was actually made for adults? Safe to say- I almost died. Literally. Most likely from the head trauma that neither Justin nor I saw coming. There I am, flying down the line…getting towards the end…slowly realizing that I am going REALLY FAST…seeing a look of panic start to develop on Justin’s face who is behind me on the other line…luckily I really didn’t see what was happening and when I got to the end, hit the tires on the line, somehow flipping up perpendicular to the ground, holding on for dear life, I somehow missed hitting my body, head, legs on the big end pole AND managed to stay on the T-bar. My back is totally sore and Justin was pretty sure I was going to seriously hurt myself. I’m sure it wasn’t pretty and I’m definite that I will not be trying that again anytime soon. Justin’s only saving grace was that his ass dragged along the ground, slowing him down before the end.

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