New Zealand - Day Nine
Monday 12th April 2010
04.04.2010 - 23.04.2010
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Time to say goodbye to Rotorua. We could have stayed longer. A great place and not as stinky as we remember it.
Would you believe it the one day we have to be up and at them the boys decide to sleep in!!!!
Down to the pool for a last swim and back to the room to pack an overnight bag for our stop off at Ruth’s, (an old friend from our time here before), family farm in Otaki on the Kapiti coast.
We set off and we had arranged to meet with Erica, James and the Boys for coffee in Taupo as Erica had been undertaking a 100Km walk for charity.
Just outside Taupo is a place called Huka Falls which we called in at. Well worth a visit to experience nature at its best.
We met Erica, James and the park by the lake. The boys were really happy to see each other for one last play.
We said our goodbyes and with Zach who is 8 I think saying see you when I’m 13.…not sure if he will be backpacking Europe then, we set off for Wilson farm.
Now the drive from Taupo has some fantastic scenery but the roads are not so fast. The motorways in NZ are simply the same as country roads in the UK.
Luckily we had packed the DVD players so Fin was amused for the journey and Ollie slept as usual. Ollie is the most acclimatised to the time difference out of all of us.
With our estimated time of arrival totally blow out of the water we finally arrived at Wilson Farm 3 hours late and darkness falling.
With most of the family waiting for us including Ruth’s nephews who were eagerly awaiting to meet Fin and Ollie we made our apologies.
We were generously fed and watered and after a catch up it was time for bed.
I would like to add at this point with all the driving and the glorious weather my trucker arm is looking really tanned. In layman’s terms my right arm has caught the sun on the drivers side but the other one has not!!
Ps. Apologies to my mother-in-law, who is an English teacher, for my grammar. However after an exhausting day and half a bottle of NZ wine its hard to keep the brain working!!!!
Posted by thedeanies 12.04.2010 17:00 Archived in New Zealand
It sounds like you are having a fab time. Are you seeing more than you did when you lived there? I am enjoying the updates. Keep them coming! Love The Boltons
15.04.2010 by vic bolton