Our Travels

Firstly apologies for the last couple of entries where the wording has been a bit strange. I had predictive text on this tablet and it was a pain in the a...!
Finally found out how to take it off.

Oakura
Saturday. Today we went for a drive around the New Plymouth port area, and around the mountain and up to Dawson falls. Mt Egmont really is quite spectacular with its snow on top that looks like icing running down. They dont get to ski on it for very long during the season. This year they got three days.
We took Rudi and Verena out to dinner to a nice italian place they liked.

Sunday.  We left our friends place around 9am and headed north towards Hamilton. We decided not to visit Waitomo caves due to cost and the fact that we have glo worms here and we have seen plenty of staligmites etc.
We found a nice place to stay in Cambridge and decided to visit the movie set of Lord of the rings on Monday. It is called Hobbiton.  It was very good although it rained as we were walking around.
We then travelled to Auckland.

As we were driving to Cambridge on Sunday we both had been thinking the same thing and that was,  we felt we had seen all we wanted to see and had spent enough money and it was time to go home.

So at lunchtime Monday we rang to see about flying out earlier and instead of finding some accomodation that night,  we flew home that night leaving Auckland at 7.45. ( should have been 6.50) arriving at Tullamarine at 9.15pm, but there were about 5 other planes too so it took a long time to get through customs.
Stayed with mum last night and with Katherine tonight.

Heading home to Cobden tomorrow. Happy with our decision to come home.