April 9th – April 15th – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!
Lucy says........
What to do with our guests. Greg Had planned an exhaustive programme (exhausting as well!!) The first morning in Wanaka was so cold that we all had breakfast with our coats on!!
We decided to familiarise every one with Wanaka walked into town along the lake front. It was a lovely day, bright and sunny and warmed up quickly once the sun came up and that has been the pattern since.
The following day we drove out to Mount Aspiring Valley and walked along the valley towards the Aspiring Hut, again a lovely day however we turned back before we got to the hut as very black clouds were looming, although they came to nothing.
Later in the week we moved to Queenstown, over the mountains and Betty & John looked after the children for the day while Greg Harry and I went for a Quad bike ride.
Now, having been, (what 5 months ago?) on a Quad bike, I quite happily agreed to go…. It turned out once we got there that we had been booked onto an Adventure tour… I was starting to get nervous…
Fortunately we were given our own guide who was really understanding of me. We started going around the paddock then set off along a road and progressed to muddy puddles, mud, more mud and steep hills with mud and huge holes in them with mud.
By the time we had finished 3 hours later we were very muddy but it had been really good fun.
Alistair & Rowena had had a good day with Grandma as she had let them have whatever they wanted for lunch..!!
That evening we all went for a buffet at the restaurant at the top of the gondola. Wow, what a spread! The Children had a lovely time going up again and again to choose things to eat.
Friday morning saw an early start for Betty & John who were flying to Wellington at 8am for a few days to stay with John’s friend. Once at the airport they were told that as it was very cloudy there were no planes flying so they would have to wait, eventually at 12.30pm they left!
We returned to Wanaka. This was the beginning of the end trip for the van; the plan was for the children & I to take the van to Auckland while Greg came back here to start his course.
We left on Saturday to travel back to Ch-church leaving Greg & Harry here to go mountain bike riding and watch the rugby.
What to do with our guests. Greg Had planned an exhaustive programme (exhausting as well!!) The first morning in Wanaka was so cold that we all had breakfast with our coats on!!
We decided to familiarise every one with Wanaka walked into town along the lake front. It was a lovely day, bright and sunny and warmed up quickly once the sun came up and that has been the pattern since.
The following day we drove out to Mount Aspiring Valley and walked along the valley towards the Aspiring Hut, again a lovely day however we turned back before we got to the hut as very black clouds were looming, although they came to nothing.
Later in the week we moved to Queenstown, over the mountains and Betty & John looked after the children for the day while Greg Harry and I went for a Quad bike ride.
Now, having been, (what 5 months ago?) on a Quad bike, I quite happily agreed to go…. It turned out once we got there that we had been booked onto an Adventure tour… I was starting to get nervous…
Fortunately we were given our own guide who was really understanding of me. We started going around the paddock then set off along a road and progressed to muddy puddles, mud, more mud and steep hills with mud and huge holes in them with mud.
By the time we had finished 3 hours later we were very muddy but it had been really good fun.
Alistair & Rowena had had a good day with Grandma as she had let them have whatever they wanted for lunch..!!
That evening we all went for a buffet at the restaurant at the top of the gondola. Wow, what a spread! The Children had a lovely time going up again and again to choose things to eat.
Friday morning saw an early start for Betty & John who were flying to Wellington at 8am for a few days to stay with John’s friend. Once at the airport they were told that as it was very cloudy there were no planes flying so they would have to wait, eventually at 12.30pm they left!
We returned to Wanaka. This was the beginning of the end trip for the van; the plan was for the children & I to take the van to Auckland while Greg came back here to start his course.
We left on Saturday to travel back to Ch-church leaving Greg & Harry here to go mountain bike riding and watch the rugby.
posted by greg and lucy | 11:33 PM
1 Comments:
Greg,
I've tried to leave comments previously but they've not been posted for some reason - hope I'm lucky this time!
I'm very much enjoying reading your blog - was very envious until I saw the first chilly fingers of winter creep into your writing and so I'm now a bit happier about being up here in the good old NH!
Irish never really delivered this year bit I've got a great Heineken final to watch in a week or so, dreaded Leicester vs Wonderful Waspies!!.
All to best to you & the family on your amazing journey around the land of the long white cloud.
Best regards, Jim Clitheroe
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