Yesterday we drove from Taupo to Rotarua after Sam and Will spent the morning hitting glof balls into the lake trying to win a prize. There's a platform out to sea and you have 18 balls to try and get into the hole, the prize is $10,000!!! We didn't win but Will was very close.
The drive to Rotarua was lovely as the landscape here is very volcanic and there are lots of funny shaped hills, steaming geysers, bubbling mud pools and hot springs, however it was spoilt slightly when there was a funny noise and a grating sound and we stopped on the side of the road with a burst tyre. The next 40 minutes were spent trying to unhook the spare tyre, jack up the van, undo the bolts, change the wheel (for the dodgy looking spare) and then put the burst tyre back in the spare tyre place under the van. The whole time we were covered in little flies, it was pretty disgusting, but fortunately Will is the strongest man in the world and managed to do it all pretty quickly and suprisingly calmly. Funnily enough it was quite an enjoyable experience!! (for me anyway but I was mainly watching).
When we arrived in Rotarua we bought a new tyre and then went to the info place to arrange our activities (it's not called Rotavegas for nothing) then we narrowed down our activities to the following: Ride on the luge, Maori experience including concert and a Hungi (a meal cooked by hot stones in the ground) and possibly some other god awful extreme sport!
We then decided (and this is the best bit) to spend the night in a hotel and found a nice hotel with a spa with the natural mineral waters. So we are now sat in bed, Sam is watching Telly, Will is reading the complimentary paper and I am drinking coffee in bed (made by Will!) and charging all the electrical equipment, the only down side is we have to be out by 11:00 am so only 1 and 1/2 hours to go!!
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