Sadly the Rotorua fair was canceled due to heavy rain bogging up the grounds.

So we went to Splore to perform our circus show to the pumping crowds! Splore is a big commercial music festival held at Tepapa-kanga regional park near Auckland. It was such a long queue to get in, we crawled along stopping and starting every few meters. We didn’t mind though, we were having fun in our circus costumes!

We had a bit of a “star-wars” moment, just as the storm troopers/security guards were about to search our truck a lady came striding over to us saying”We have been waiting for you! We have a parking space saved. We need to get you off the road. We will have to skip the security check!” This saved Dad from having to use his “Jedi powers”. Our contraband was safely smuggled in, chiefly our two Chihuahuas among other things….

The camp area was a ten minute walk from the festival stages, so it was nice and peaceful. The moment we parked up for the night it started raining. We woke up to 16,000 feet(8000 people) squelching through a sea of mud. I thought it was a little bit too muddy and crowded. For such a big festival the kids area was surprisingly small, just one little tent. But still it was fun making badges.

Dad went mud sliding in the lucky star zone and came out looking like a mud monster, so we went and washed off in the sea.

That night I danced on the lucky star stage, it rocked!

In the end we did not perform at Splore. We literally could not find a flat place that was not mud!

That week we went to Te Aroha and met our cousins at the holiday park where there is an amazing adventure playground and a gigantic flying fox.

Oh my! I almost forgot about the pools. They have three pools, a small hot pool a small cold kids pool, and a big deep cold pool.

Next we go to Hamilton!