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So after several very eventful and WiFi-free days, here’s a bit of a synopsis!

We stayed in Rotorua on Tuesday 17th in a dorm of 7:  Mike and Jane plus

Chilli sauce mate?!!

 5 other females!!  Although the hostel was part of a chain and quite a good one, Jane’s middle name became BUFFET as she suffered an attack of the midnight munchies…by bed bugs!  Took us back to they heady old days in Honkers in ‘94 when Mike got snacked heavily upon!!  The hostel group paid for all our laundry though.   

We spent most of the day at the famous Rotorua Hotsprings GeoThermal park where there are bubbling hotpools of mud (no bathing) and the world famous Geyser, which fortunately goes off whenever a tourist is watching!!  We took loads of photos as Mike was there as a 1-year old, so needs mum to see if the place has changed much!!

Weds 18th – Fri 20thAug…a few monu-mental days!  Literally!!  We went from Rotorua southwards to a place called Waitomo on the Wednesday:

Do our bums look big in this?!!

 home to some seriously awesome cave systems…!  First ‘hardcore’ activity which we BOTH did was a 120ft abseil into the systems through an opening wide enough for me and a kebab!!  From there, complete with miner’s helmets, we explored the underground caves and rivers systems for the next 3 hours!!!  Cold, knackered and desiring a pint sum it up!  It was exhausting but amazing.

On the 19th (Thu) we all headed to a place called Taupo: see next post…..