Te Ngae Country Lodge Rotorua

... Let's just say I think I got the job! It's so funny how laid back things are around here. I'm learning that it's much more about who you know than what you know.<br><br>Day three (today) has been my favorite day so far! I finally got to do some exploring! Let me break it down visually. This is a town right on the coast, known as a beach town and it's HUGE summer tourists. It has 223K Mountain that is constantly being ...

... rotting eggs got our tummies growling, so we poked into a little pub for a bite to eat. We chose a pub called The Pheasant Plucker, which had buffalo wings on the menu! As anyone who knows us could guess, this was a big discovery for us, since we both love buffalo wings and have found them to be almost non-existent here. After a delicious meal we headed to our farm!<br><br>Our first impression of the farm wasn't great; their driveway was not paved and ...

... day: my pink onesie with sheep on it! love it. <br><br>Any additional lessons learnt:<br>1. just because a place advertises that you can feed baby lions doesnt necessarily mean that they HAVE any baby lions at that moment. <br>2. pukekos are the most awesomely awkward bird ever... <br>3. you actually do get used to the smell of rotorua (rotten eggs)... no matter how bad you find it at first. <br>4. organ donation is VERY important!!!

... to waitomo caves famous for its glow worms and i decided to go on a black water rafting trip strangely this trip doesn't have any rafts but is instead a caving trip where you use an inflatable tube for floating and where you float through the caves using the water,mostly in complete darkness in a human chain formed by holding on to the legs of the person behind you with the ...

... eruption each day.  Basically, the cold water under the ground where the geyser comes out of sits on top of the hot water.  When they combine, she erupts.  To force them to combine, the rangers break the surface tension by throwing a soap-like substance down into the  mouth of the geyser.  The cold water mixes with the hot and the geyser begins to erupt.  She erupts for quite some time and is taller than a couple of people standing on eachothers' shoulders ...

... lets you fall 150km/h in 2 seconds!! I shut my eyes the firt time but it was such a rush we both went again this time dragging dad along (who was pretty terrified so it was very funny). We bought a dvd so you can see it when we come home. Once all the ride tokens were used we went to an X-treme Offroad centre where there was Archery, Shooting and 4-Wheel Driving and Speed Racing. We all sat and watched someone do the racing as there ...

After a short drive from Turangi, we arrived to Rotorua, main town of the Bay of plenty area and centre of geothermal activities. After yesterday's activities, that's just what we needed: relax, quick walk around and a spa treatment. We visited the town's geyser, saw a kiwi bird (but not allowed to take a picture of it), saw a haka... and put our van in a street of Hamilton for the night.

... we don't intentionally try to get, but do, in every country<br>we can find it.<br><br>8:00 PM - We easily found hotel Rendezvous,<br>right off the highway exit in the middle of downtown, and settled in<br>for an early night. The room and view is pretty amazing, I was wishing<br>at the time we could've stayed here the whole trip!<br><br>