Today we went to Volcanic Playground. It’s a big playground in front of the Rotorua Lake. Saraí had the opportunity to ride a pony (one more check on her ‘to do’ list). She was so excited, but if you know her, she’s all serious trying to hide it. Raquel refused to ride one, even to touch a pony. That was our...

Today we went to buy some souvenirs at the information centre. Then we picked up some pizzas at Hell’s pizza, the order got delayed and the girls got free beach balls and we got a free Coke. We ate at home and we began our road trip to Rotorua. It was a 4 hrs drive, the girls watched movies on the laptop. This look like Forks to me 🙂 We arrived...

Today is basically our last day here in Napier since tomorrow we are moving to Rotorua, which means we’ll spend the day packing and driving to our new place. We are on a wine area so we chose one of the tenths of wineries that are in the area to visit. We went to Clearview Estate which has a cellar door and a restaurant. Altough the service was a little slow we...

The weather today was a little bit odd. A storm system got into New Zealand and altough is not really bad for us, the sky is cloudy and with some wind gusts. We decided to take the girls to play at a mini-golf just beside the ocean. After the 18 hole course which I easily won 😀 We enjoyed some ice-cream and popsicles. Then back at home,. since the girls...

Today we visited a place called TrainWorld, is a small place filled with scale trains. The place was very cool since the scale trains were really pieces of art. After the visit we went to the beach to wet our feet in the ocean. What do you think of the New Zealand...

Today we went to Amazing Maze which is near Hastings, some 20 mins south of where we are in Napier. This place is a big Maize Maze. The girls had a lot of fun. At the maze entrance they gave you a flag-pole in case your party got to lost you would wave it so they could find you a help you on your way back. After the maze the girls cooled down a little with water...

Today is Christmas Day here in New Zealand, perhaps one of the slowest days in the country, nothing is opened today, and when I mean nothing, I really mean nothing. Sol made us a really nice dinner, we had a Honey Glazed Ham she did following this recipe. It tasted really nice. The girls played a little on the garden, and then we went to a playground we saw on the...

Our first day at Napier. Today we decided to visit the National Aquarium here in Napier. It’s somewhat small but really nice, it has a Oceanarium on which you get into a glass tunnel as if you were in the middle of the fish tank.   PS: Today we decided to surprise the girls with some toys we got them courtesy of their grandma Mary. So when they woke...

Time for our first road trip in New Zealand. We are travelling from Wellington to Napier, which is usually a 3 hour trip, but we got a big traffic jam up in Parauparaumu so the trip in the end took 4 and half hours. We hit the road after a noon lunch. It was a really nice trip full of sightings and the roads are very well maintained.   When we got near...

It’s still raining like crazy and today a disaster happened, when I woke up and decided to turn on my laptop the thing wouldn’t turn on. I spent the whole morning trying to figure out what might be wrong, I finally had to take it to a repair shop up in Porirua, and since tomorrow we are leaving to Napier I had to pay extra to have the revision in a hurry,...