Another amazing day here in New Zealand!! Luckily no boats on fire today - woo hoo!! We got up bright & early to re-do our Duck Boat tour, but since the operator was out of fire extinguishers, he canceled, so we wandered thru the Botanical Gardens & found a playground to play on. :) Never too old for playgrounds! We then walked to the Jade showroom for a demonstration and shopping.
We had a busy agenda today - no wasting daylight for us!! First up was the Agrodome and a sheep shearing show. Most of the kids got up on stage during volunteer time & we listened as they described all the different types of sheep and actually watched them shear a sheep.
The fun continued across the street at AgroAdentures where the kdis went Swooping, Shweeb, Jet Boating and Free Falling for 2+ hours. Next on our Adrenaline rush day was the Skyline Gondola up to go Luging!! A favorite of mine! From there we went straight to the Ogo where they all jumped in their plastic hamster balls filled with warm water and meandered down a hill. Loads of fun!
Our last NZ experience of the day was a stop at Rainbow Springs to see real live Kiwis -- the birds, that is. Super cool to see their long beaks!
Starving and on an adrenaline high, we went back to the hotel and headed for dinner where we ended up at The Shed, a pub with the big Rugby match - The All Blacks vs. France. Met the locals who were trying to guess where we were from...Canada...Argentina...US (but we were too quiet so this wan't their first choice. lol).
And to top off our day - we celebrated Cristina's 18th birthday with cake and a whole lounge of Kiwis singing along...and trying to steal our cake!
Overall an amazing day!! We will be sad to say good-bye to NZ and jump across the ditch to Australia tomorrow, but more adventures await! Enjoy the pics below!! We love the comments!
~steph :)
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| Beautiful sunrise in Rotorua, NZ |
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| Playing in the botanical gardens |
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| Checking out some amazing, durable jade. |
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| Sheep shearing show was great!! |
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| Eddie & Olivia do the swoop. Wait til you see the video...A-MA-ZiNG!! |
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| Kathryn, Cristina & Courtney do some swooping! |
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| Molly & Mike do some Shweebing. |
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| Cristina & Kathryn hit the AgroJet! |
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| Time for some luging!! |
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| And they're off!! |
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| Time for the OGO! |
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| Jumping for Joy at the Kiwi experience |
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| Keeping the tradition alive by celebrating Cristina's bday in the McDonald's drive thru! |
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| Happy 18th Birthday Cristina! |
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| My Tour Director, Sladj, from my last tour - she's staying at our same hotel Soooooo great to catch up!! |
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| Adam (our current Tour Director) and Sladj (my last Tour Director) |
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| Yep, we're celebrities! Our Duck Fire made the local paper. |
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