A friend rang to offer their cabin at the same camping ground so we packed up and headed off.
We went through the usual ritual of making sure everyone had been to the loo, nappy change and house locked up. This was exciting!!!
Hiccup #1 - we made it to Napier (all 10mins away) and Crazy 1 announces he needs to go to the toilet! He had just been at home.
Back in the car with a box of lollies each, we were on our way again.
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| Packed high in the back and SO summery outside |
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| Forwards Dad! |
Hiccup #3 - We didn't realise that Crazy 2 was sitting in his seat with one leg bent up underneath the other. Bet you can guess what happened??? His foot went to sleep - boy oh boy was there a hully gully going on while we tried to get him to keep his legs out straight but knowing that painful feeling of doing the same thing. The tears over this lasted probably 1/4 of the way.
Hiccup #4 - Mr W and I both had a Berrocca before we left. Now I don't know if this happens to everyone but it does us. You need to pee every 5 mins it feels, so of course half way to Taupo we both needed the loo.
Hiccup #5 - Mr W started to get bad cramp in his leg, so on the flat/straight bit just out of Taupo we pulled over for a walk around/toilet stop.
Hiccup #6 - After getting Crazy 2 out of the car for all of 2 seconds (it was blowing a gale) I was strapping him back into his car seat when next thing I knew my thin/flimsy top had blown up around my neck!!!!! Just a bit of entertainment for the hundreds of passing cars!!!!!!!!!!!
Right we are off AGAIN - nothing will stop us now. Rotorua was our meeting point with friends for McD's lunch. Perfect! Tired kids can be fed, burn off some energy in the playground and we can carry on.
Hiccup #7 - McD's playground is closed! SERIOUSLY! Who closes the playground at a fast food joint! Clearly someone who doesn't have kids!
Thankfully the drive from Rotorua to Papamoa goes really quick as there are a lot of small townships on the way.
We finally arrive at Pacific Park Christian Holiday Park . It was quite a nice feeling to think we didn't then have to put up a tent and unpack seeing as we were going straight for the cabin (the one I had seen on their site). We were given our cabin keys and shown where to go.
Hiccup #8 - our cabin wasn't the one on their website, it was a box on wheels that they move in for the seasonal workers. I got the giggles! And when I say box, I mean box. It was approx the same size as our office with a set of bunks filling the far wall, and another set of bunks down another wall. It was so tight that we had to turn side on to get passed each other. Ummmmm HELLO!!!!!! Not gonna happen!
Thankfully the desk man gave us our original tent site and we raced around setting it up before any rain set in.
The bad weather through the day that was forecast didn't eventuate. In fact it was stinking hot and humid through the day and rained at night.
It was just peachy!
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| Campsite all set up |
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| After all of the above there was no way I was cooking |
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| Off to the beach. "Dad, I carry it myself!" |
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| Sandcastles - but they didn't last long as it was more fun squashing them |
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| Soccer time |
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| Having a sleep with/on Dad |
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| Playing Go Fish |
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| Chilling |
Then after all of the above on day 3 Crazy 2 broke out in Chicken Pox!!!! Our other friends that were there told us to just stay as the kids he was playing with were theirs and they had all had it, so we stuck it out for two days, but by day 3 he was like this - hot and bothered and SUPER itchy.
So we cut our holiday short by two days and came home to our air con, comfy beds and calamine lotion.
Certainly an adventure that will go down in our family history book!
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