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Wellington trip – Easter 2010

Monday, April 12th, 2010

We decided to make a trip down to Wellington to see some friends and made a bit of a longer trip of over Easter. We had awesome weather the whole time, so we were really lucky.

We took the kids out of school a day early and beat the rush down to Taupo. It was a brilliant day with great weather – we stopped off in Hamilton for lunch and also for a driver reviver. It’s funny because in the morning we were talking about the driver reviver service we used in Australia and lamented that there wasn’t anything like it in NZ, and lo and behold, there it was in NZ! We got free bikkies (yah – CookieTime!), water, tea, apples etc. We were also there when a photographer from the Waikato times was there and he took our photo – we searched online for it, but couldn’t find it.

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We made it in plenty of time to Taupo to see some things such as Huka falls. The place we stayed in (Ascot) in Taupo was quite nice and they had a lovely big bath:

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Lauren and Evan were given (free) the chance to score the hole-in-one at the Taupo golf challenge. Needless to say, they didn’t even come close. :)

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We had brilliant weather in Wellington for the majority of the time. Sure, we had a bit of rain and colder weather, but in general we were quite lucky – normally Easter in Wellington is cold and wet.

We saw lots of people during our trip. We saw:
EJ, Liane, Matt and Ben (thanks for the hot-cross buns!)

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Terry, Alison, Lidia, Hamish and Alexander (thanks for the awesome barbeque and great time!)

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Ron and Angela

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Pan, San-Ying, Ethan and Ella

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Sione, Mei and Sione

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Catherine, Tim and Felix (the kids got on so well!)

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Yuri and Lidiya (thanks so much for the kindness!)

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There’s too much to write about each of these families, but we had such a great time with them. We still missed some people who were away for Easter or other things for the weekend, but we’ll catch them next time!

We took the cable car up to the top of the botanic garden in Wellington – the same place where Nicole and I had our wedding photos taken. It was brilliant as usual up there and we had great weather. We also went to the photography shop where we had our engagement photos done in Days Bay, but Simon wasn’t around on that day.

On the trip home we drove via Napier and then stopped off in Rotorua. In Rotorua, we took the gondola up to the luge and did the luge for a few trips (Evan in particular loved the luge!).

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We also went to the Agrodome to see the farm service, which was awesome. We had brilliant weather and the kids got to do lots of interactive things, like play and feed the animals, milk a cow, rustle sheep etc.

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Overall, an excellent trip, with some great memories.