The Holidays !!!!!!!!!!

We came home a couple of days ago from our Christmas Break and Holidays (sigh). We had a wonderful time in the beautiful summer weather while in Tauranga for Christmas before heading to Lake Rotoiti in the beautiful Rotorua Lakes District, on Boxing Day. We enjoyed helping cook and eat a Hangi for Christmas dinner, playing cricket in two venues, with two different cousins, swimming in a river, lakes and at Ohope, in the sea, sailing, tramping up a ridge we didn't know you could get up, riding on 'biscuits' behind various kind people's motor boats, camping outside the bach, trying to kill a possum that was making a large racket at night above our tents, picking and eating plums and doing heaps of other fun things together. Here are some pics:

Dangerous as Anything

( Sorry, not sure how to rotate the photos)



The weekend before last the S7, D and I went with The McG and the A boys to Lake Rotoiti for a Dangerous Boys weekend. We left at about 6:00am on Friday morning and took with us K10 and L7 of Inventions Adventures fame with us. When we got there we went out in the rain on the Go-Kart and wrecked a tyre while drifting on loose gravel (on the road, girls would absolutely not approve!!!). Later, after the McG's arrived, we set up some tents to sleep in that night. Earlier we had gone adventuring up to where the Glow-Worms are and went exploring the surrounding area. We went and played a game of rugger at the park during which D tweaked his adductor muscle and therefore could not play in the big match the next day!!! That night we got a fire going really well and used most of the neighbours rubbish pile to do so! After that we went up to the Glow-Worms and got into bed really rather late!! The next morning while we were just finishing breakfast the rest of the A's arrived and later that morning we got to go to a freshwater stream that you can drink out of and went under the road on kayaks. When Mr A wanted a photo of us all on one kayak, the kayak got pushed by the fast flow of water against the concrete wall and my leg was between them!!! When we finally got going just before the end of the tunnel the kayak tipped and we all got bangs and bruises. Later on we had a big game of rugby before going to Lake Okataina for a bush walk. That night we had an even bigger fire than the night before and played games and toasted marshmallows before going to bed after we had found out that the Aussies had beaten us in the netball. The next day we went swimming and boating and cleaned up before leaving for home. On the way home we stopped at Pokeno where we had a ice cream and a burger each. We all had kiddy (big two scoopers) cones except D who had a baby cone (one big scoop).

5th of October continued............

Cont'd from last post

The Captain (this is what we are now starting to call Dad) said that we could go for a walk when we get there and go down into the WWII tunnels with our headlamps, he also said that there would be some old barracks that we would be able to explore. Laura isn't looking forward to it because somebody (we all think it was Ben) told her there would be rats. Anyway I have to go because the Captain is calling me to take over the tiller so he can go and check the chart around Home Bay for rocks and reefs as I haven't had time to look for him.

12:00 Miles: 2 1/2

We've just arrived at Home Bay about 5 minutes ago. Did I ever put in this Log that we have two Kayaks on board? Well if I didn't we do have two, and Mum and Ben have just started to paddle over to the shore from our now anchored boat. Mum is going to set up a couple of our small tents for everybody but me to sleep in.

TBC

Go the All Blacks!!! My guess is the All Blacks 45-15