Bonfires and board games

Yesterday me and the kids made our own board game. It was fun and involved a lot of drawing, writing notes and cutting paper. We played the game too and it turned out pretty good :D

Today has been a doing Nothing day :) I missed out on an Awesome birthday party for Rikke, but felt that I really needed to spend this evening at home with the family. We went to a big as bonfire at another farm down the road. It was fun to meet a lot of new people and see how everyone turned up to the event. A real farmers village spirit.

Now I'm very tired and need rest before taking the girls to the climbing wall in Rotorua tomorrow.
Cheers everyone!

Polynesian Spas and Goodbye Dinners

Saturday morning I went to the Polynesian Spa in Rotorua. It's apparently one of the worlds top ten spas, but I only went to the cheapest "family pool" so I guess I didn't really experience the world famous part. It was lovely all the same, with smelly mineral water at 34 degrees and another cooler pool (I'd say around 25-30).

The two really hot pools.

The pool that was a little cooler.

Since I was there in the morning the pools were empty when I came. Then people started to drop in but it was never crowded. 

In the evening we all met up at Annas place to say goodbye and have dinner with her family and half the neighborhood :) It was very nice but I'm sad that Anna is going. I'm going to miss you <3

Nice weather and accidents

We had awesomely nice weather last Friday! Got the afternoon of and before I went to Rotorua to have some errands mad, have dinner with Thore and go out with the girls I decided to take to motorbike for a ride.

It was lovely and I was driving around on the grass, on and off the track, until suddenly I realize I have driven into a "swamp". It was maybe 5 times 5 meters of grass covered in water and mud, and the motorbike stopped and started sinking. The engine died and when I put my feet down they sank at least two decimeter before I reached some kind of solidness. Desperately I tried to push the bike forward but with no success. I decided to try to pull it backwards instead and used all the energy I had to try to wobble it out of there. Then it fell over, right into the mud. I had no phone with me, and it would probably take me 15 minutes to walk home from where I were so I had no choice than to try again. I finally got it standing up again and somehow managed to pull it out. Afterwards I lay panting in the grass for a while, my pants all muddy and adrenaline rushing in my veins. In the bottom left corner you can see part of the mud that I got stuck in..

Thankfully I could start the bike without too much problem and continue my trip down to the river. There I found a perfect place to lay down in the sun and recover!

We had a great night out and I stayed at a backpackers which was nice.
Cheers

Farrah and Ice Creams

I went to Rotorua with Mithcie and Farrah, and after a long day in town Farrah got an ice cream to eat in the car on the way home. Result:

Yum yum!

Mt Manganui and room mates

Went on a lovely trip to Mt Manganui in Tauranga with Anna, Rikke and Julia last Saturday. We walked all the way around it and had a nice time doing so. Here are some pics of that trip.

I have a new room mate as well. Here is a picture of her. Her name is Flossy and she is very cute, as you can see.

She peed in my suitcase, which was a bad start for our room mate agreement, but since then she's been good. She always follows me out when I go to my place and sleeps in my bed. For some reason she seems to think my face is a comfortable pillow, and I tend to disagree.. But she is completely adorable and it's is always nice with some company.

Cheers!

Calves and Au Pairs

I'm back from the Olympics now after having an interesting lunch with themes of Morocco, Nepal, Finland, Belgium and probably some other countries as well. Had some very good apple cake that Mithcie made yesterday.

Found these cute pictures of Farrah from another day when I brought her out to the paddocks.

She was very tired after a long day, and lay like that, sound asleep, for almost an hour. Adorable.


When the weekend came I went out to Rotorua with the Au Pairs. First me, Anna and Kathrin went to a Mongolian all you can eat buffet, and had a big dinner. Then we met up with the other girls at pig and whistle, as usual ^^

Kathi, Kathrin, Rikke, Cecilie and Anna at Pig and Whistle.. Oink Oink

Kathi and Anna, with the Birthday card we all signed for Cecilie who had her Birthday that day. Happy Birthday Cecilie!

It was also Kathrins last weekend, and today (Thursday) she is flying home. If you read this Kathrin, have a safe flight, I will miss you!

Internet and Olympics

Today (about five minutes ago) we finally got the Internet working again. After almost two weeks that feels great!

I will upload a couple of pictures from my camera and try to remember what day they are from, so hopefully that will summarize the last two weeks.
Friday two weeks ago we met at Cecilies place to watch LOTR, eat fish and chips, ice cream, cookies, candy, chocolate, fruit salad(!), more lollies and some more chocolate. Unfortunately did I feel really sick and had a fever so I spent most night undere to blankets on the sofa, shaking and freezing. When I went up  to go to the bathroom I fainted and the girls heard me fall and came running o help me. They were really sweet and Sabrina knew what to do which was very comforting. Instead of going to the hospital as they suggested I insisted to go to bed. When I woke up I felt way better, but I'm so glad that the girls where there for me. Lots of love, Rotorua-girls <3
That day I went with the girls and we met Sandra (the au pair links "outings organizer") and a lot of girls, an one boy, from Tauranga to go wall-climbing. Obviously I didn't climb anything, but I felt to weak to drive all the 45 minutes home, so wallclimbing it was. We had fun though, here is a pic of the au pairs, the ones up to the right is the ones from Rotorua (and them me to the bottom left).

That Sunday I din't do much, because I still felt pretty bad.

Monday Farrah stayed home from kindy and we had a very nice day. The weather was great (to be winter and all) and we went out to look at some newborn calves.

Cute aye?

Now I'm going to watch the girls Olympic day at school, more updates are coming!
Cheers