HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!
We ate breakfast this morning and now we are all getting ready for the long drive up north to the bay islands.... I am so excited to go up north to the Farley's friends batch house. We are going to be doing some snorkling, body boarding/ surfing, exploring, fishing, and of course relaxing. Plus the weather is supposed to be really nice...
Basically it took us all day to get up to the batch house... Since I got car sick while driving to lion rock yesterday, Rose let me wear Nigels balancing wrist bands for motion sickness... FYI they really help... We stopped for lunch and had some sandwiches... then the restroom in a town called Whangeri pronounced "Fanga-ray"... ridiculously hard to pronounce... Olly asked me to pronounce it and I was way off hahah... I pretty much slept a good majority of the time... I was so tried from all the activities Olly and I have been doing... I think the family probably thought I was crazy because I slept so much LOL.
We finally made it after 3 hours of traveling to the Bay Islands. The Bay of Islands consists of 144 islands, of which 4 are privately owned and have houses owned and have houses for sale from as little as 1 million dollars... Town of Paihai pronounced "Pi-here" haha has a ninety mile beach... actually really only 64 miles long... Anyhow, we all went to a cafe to get coffee and walked around to the stores... I got an awesome New Zealand sweat shirt... I think I got it for $29 NZ which equals about $14.50 US... Super cheap... Then we looked around a center where the Maori tribe and settlers signed a declaration... I was starved by 5 PM, not normal TEA time... So we had an early dinner at a Pizza-Steak place... I got the Veggie pizza and salad... Dave ordered some wine for the table, but it wasn't one that I really preferred... Anyhow the dinner was delicious and I really enjoyed myself...
After dinner it was about another hours drive to the batch house... We finally made it by 9 PM... Then it was off to bed for an exciting day ahead.
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