Hi Everyone!
We've just been on holiday up North, staying at a family friend's farm between Rotorua and Whakatane, about ten minutes drive from Kawerau which had a lovely free swimming pool and thermal spa which we went to lots!! While we were up there we also went to Rotorua for a day and went on the Luge and me, Mum and Sophia also went on the Skyswing, a metal ball hung between 2 pylons and then pulled up to a third pylon on the hill and let go so you swing out over the hill and can see all of Rotorua which is very nice if you are not screaming your head off with your eyes closed as mum did for the whole thing! While we were at Denise's we went on a walk with all the family to a waterfall that comes out from the side of the rock of the hill. It was really exciting! And then we went swimming in a really cool swimming hole on the way back!
This is an activity we did while on the farm which was a lot of fun! I would drive the van around the paddocks and all the kids and adults and even the dog would jump on the mat attached to the back and be pulled around getting bumped up and down and jumping on and off while it was moving!
Just after New Years we took our van and went up around the Coremandel for a couple of days, the first two of which we stayed in the Kauaeranga Valley.
On the way home to Wellington we stopped into Gisborne for dinner and for a great deal of excitement too! Some grass had caught fire and the fire was also threatening some houses! There was a lot of smoke!
As we were eating dinner, choppers with monsoon buckets flew to the rescue, right over our heads, and then dipped down to the water just out in the bay where we sitting. There were four going as we left and we got lots of photos! xD
Last night we arrived home to a very enthusiastic dog, our neighbors, who came over for a chat and Joarn, who was housesitting!!
By Olivia
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