I love holidays

I have decided that Mr W has THE best job, or at least works for THE best company - why??? as their office shuts down for a week after Easter.  It is fantastic.

This year we decided that we would go away for a family holiday seeing as in a weeks time Crazy 2 will be 3 and off to kindy, and in a months time Crazy 1 will be 5!!!!  (Eeeckkk I know what will I do with my time!)  We finally decided on Rotorua (lots to do, and not too far to drive).

We I was slightly nervous about hitting the Napier-Taupo road following this trip at Christmas time, but we made it with no tears.  Instead this time we had 'a bad Ben10 and Transformer as New Zealand has some bad animals' in the back seat.  (in the boys words!)

We stopped off in Taupo for lunch and a play at the domain which was just 'peachy'.  The boys weren't remotely interested in lunch and just wanted to play, so there were tears and tantrums.  In fact Crazy 2 had a mega tantrum as we told him he needed to heat 3 sausage rolls and then could go an play.  When he finally sat down he progressed to eat through the remaining ones and walked off as if nothing had happened!

I think the rest can be said in photos...........

Te Puia over the back fence

Taking it all in

Stoked about Hot Chocolate for breaky

Caterpillar Museum

Luge racing

AmazeMe hedge maze

Maze losers walking the plank

Goon

Mini golf on the hardest course we have been
to

Haka time

Saluting the soldiers

Dad was on bath duty!!!!

Enough said!

Lowlights:

• Seeing a naked farmers wrinkly white bum cheeks
• Myself and the 2 Crazys were unwell (with colds) so lots of coughing and spluttering
• The tourist attractions are ridiculously expensive (RIDICULOUSLY)

Highlights:

• While we were looking in a clear water pond in the Redwoods, an English tourist Dad asked his daughter if she had farted, to which she replied 'no Dad, that's Rotoruas bum!'
• Crazy 2 thought Crazy 1 kept pushing a button to make the chairlift stop from the bottom of the luge back to the top.
• At The Warehouse Crazy 2 jumped out screaming at a teenage girl - just because....... 
• On the luge Crazy 2 would scream at anyone we passed
• Our accommodation was 2 story so we had heaps of fun sliding down the stairs on our bums
• Crazy 1 squeezing my leg as we left the top in the gondola - you can see the building roof under you and then it just drops away
• See a big red button - must push it!!!!  At least this seems to be Crazy 2s idea.  He saw a red button at the top of the luge chairlift ride, so pushed it - yip it was just the emergency stop button for the whole chairlift!!!!  Thankfully it didn't stop for too long.

And the best thing.......  you can do a silent and violent you know what and those around you are non the wiser!!!!  :)