Frogs! Frogs! Frogs! The one good thing about the fact that it was raining, still was all the ting green frogs hopping around. The Gypsy kids filled buckets with water, grass sticks and stones making habitats for the frogs that they caught. Mine was sir hops-a-lot. Can you see my handsome prince in the image above? Look closely. Thanks Julia!

 

The best part was… we actually didn’t get stuck!!! I know your probably clapping your hands and saying “Wow” with a touch of sarcasm in your voice, but I mean really it was “Wow!”

There’s a card game called Magic, its all the rage on the Extravaganza and I finally learnt how to play! Its very complicated. On Monday Mum and I went to get a deck for me. That’s when she got the phone call… saying that her Dad, my Granddad had Cancer and would have to be put on Chemotherapy! So she sped off to Auckland to go see him, leaving Dad, the boys and I going the opposite direction, to Rotorua.

We met up with my Cousins Dominic and Samantha and my Aunt Daniela and Uncle Brent at a holiday park in Rotorua.

We stayed there with them for three nights. It had three hot pools and one big “cold pool” which was really very warm.

On the Tuesday we visited Wakarewarewa the living Maori thermal village. They actually live on a geothermal field with steam vents, boiling hot mud pools and crystal clear murderous waters where they cook their Kai (food).  We enjoyed sweetcorn cooked this way. Occasionally a geyser bursts from the ground inside someones house, forcing the residents to abandon house. Maori have lived there since early times.

The next day Dad persuaded us to go for a walk in the pouring rain through the red-woods. I got soaked It was horrible! But I have to admit very beautiful. Afterwards we quickly jumped into the hot pool back at camp to warm up. mmmmm!

Mountain biking was our next adventure for the week, at the Rotorua mountain biking park. We had so much fun until I fell off going down a very steep bumpy root covered hill. There was an ear splitting scream, then I realized it was mine! I had sprained my thumb and heavily grazed my elbow and knee, Owww! I had to walk my bike all the way back to the car-park from the middle of the humongous bike park. I was not impressed.

Next we moved off to Tauranga. I wonder if I will be able to perform in our shows this weekend? Oh well. Bye!