Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Epic New Zealand Christmas trip

 Monday- jet lag arrive, Been Brecon and Connor take a different line to get through faster and grab most of our bags to go get our rental car. I have Cannon and Brielle with only a few backpacks and customs asks “where are the rest of your bags?” we are all feeling pretty exhausted after we get our rental car and we still need to drive 2 1/2 to 3 hours down  to rotorua where the Bangerter’s are waiting for us. It was so fun to see our dear friends again!! Oven baked pizza dinner at the house. We decide to take on evening lantern walk at the redwoods… getting lost and wandering around in the dark.


Tuesday - we start our day heading up to our first adventure. The weather looked like it was going to hold off for us but as we got all geared up and out where the first zip line tracks were it begin to rain, and then it got wetter and it rained harder and then there was lightning and thunder  but this was already after we had sent a couple of kids across the river. When we all made it, we decided we were not going to keep going. We would reschedule and come back another day but by then we were already completely soaked!! rained out zip line everything soaking wet! We decide with the weather it would be best to Chill back at the house and it rained all day. Probably a good jet lag day. Dinner at house of spice Indian - walk Kuirau park. Cannon croc falls into hot thermal lake Gwen wants to sleep and is grumpy. Kids play at the park and Brecon pushes cannon in a shopping cart.


Wednesday- drove to Matamata and eat a picnic lunch before starting our hobbiton movie set tour. Emily’s family has land nearby and so we went to the family pond farm and explored the area by climbing Pond farm and hillside climb. Back in Rotorua we head to the Skyline luge … a mountain racetrack ride the kids loved!! let’s do it again! Another misadventure while waiting for chairlift to bring us up to the top again, Ben kicks when Cannons blue croc kicked down onto a nearby track. Also while riding in the life cart- Cannon croc falls off while riding down and almost causes major pileup crash! Ben had to get out and pick it up while dodging carts





















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