Our second week in NZ we shared a house on Papamoa beach with my sister Julie, her husband Lowell and their two boys Fraser and Stefan.
Julie met us on the beach at Mt Manganui and kindly drove us 15k down the coast to our new home.
Major highlight of the trip so far for the kids was hanging with the cousins.
Also Auntie Julie’s styling prowess.
Our place was across the street from a 23k beach. We didn’t even need to put our shoes on.
Another surf lesson (again with Dominic but this time during a storm) was the high point for the boys:
From Zeke’s journal:
We had a surf lesson in the rain it was so fun all of us got up at least once or twice. The rain felt like hail coming down on us, it was even better with Fraser and Stefan with us.
We went to the beach everyday and a couple of us went on a 6km run on the beach. One night we went for a night walk and talked to a very nice fisherman he told us about eels in the water at least 5 of em, they were very freaky.
We spent a day at Skyline Rotorua adventure park. From Mikaya’s journal:
Luge- I went so fast I didn’t tell my dad to stop.
Zipline- I was so scared but it wasint scary and I chipt my tooth.
Skyswing- On the skyswing there were so meny seatbelts and we were upsy down and the stumic drop was so scary and we did a flip at the end.
After the adventure park we walked around downtown Rotorua. I enjoyed the feeling of getting lost in a foreign country with no particular goal beyond getting home for dinner.
We happened upon some lovely parks and gardens. Zeke wanted to jump off everything.
Next stop mud baths and hot rivers… will finish off with a few random pics:
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