Bridgehouse Lodge Warkworth

... only one toilet's in operation because the trolley thats been blocking the isle for the last 45 mins is now blocking one of the ******* doors. Fack they're useless. I'm pretty thirsty by now and my **** has just made room for more water so I cleverly decide to combine the **** trip with a water request. The dude looks flustered and say's "We're just setting the trolley up now for drinks so will be up there soon". Facking liar, another half hour passes and for the first time i ...

... fancy at the time but don't worry they'll be round again if you feel up to it later. You also get a little egg timer style block, red on one side and green on the other. If you do not wish to be offered anything turn it to red. Feeling peckish again flip it to green and be inundated with delicious offerings. A wonderful experience. A note to virgin dinners, wear stretchy pants and if you are on a diet hard luck. That diet is going to, not only get thrown ...

Tues 3rd March - Ron's Birthday Ron had planned to go fishing for his birthday - unfortunately things don't always go to plan and he ran into a stake herding up some sheep. After rushing to the doctors and getting a check up, scans etc. a tear to a muscle meant alot of limping but fortunately nothing more serious than that. In the evening. Ester, Andy, Jenny and I all went down to see Jenny E perform some of her own material with a guitar songwriter friend at the ...

... to get into the city. The museum was pretty average to be honest and wasn't as good as Te Papa down in Wellington. It did however have a pretty good cafe where we got lunch. I did also get some cake but no coffee so again there is no coffee and cake review :-( (the cake was a chocolate caramel cake by the way - it was good....... in a bad way :-) So, after spending a couple of hours at the average museum we got back in the car and headed to our ...

... guy got out of his car and I had to stiffle my laugh as he had - wait for it.... a walking stick and .... an eyepatch!!! Oh for the love of ...! Should he even been driving!?! No wonder he couldn't park his car, any time he looked over his right shoulder he couldn't see as that was the one with the eyepatch!! LMAO!! I'm a bad person! ;o) Ok, so we walked into the town centre which was like two mins away from the ...

... had our tea and James finally got the lecky hooked up!! Then came the time to setting up the van for nightime, our beds!! Which turned out to be a little interesting including a few laughs and a knock on the head!! The short story goes Julie got up and fell back through on top of us then James got up and fell back through and in the end James moved it all around and he slept on top because we refused too!! The night went by without a major disaster.

... the time; but later in the night when we were back on the ship I had a change of mind. We are doing so well with our workouts in the gym; I didn't want to lose any of the gains by snacking. So that night, Harriet packed the snacks away for emergencies. Back to our city experiences; we decided to walk to a local liquor store that was a mile away. This turned into our walkabout, as either we didn't follow directions correctly or the liquor was a little over two miles ...

Whew, finally a second to breathe..the last few weeks in New Zealand have been a total blur. After an unsuccessful attempt to climb the glacier due to rain, we finally made it back to Christchurch and the rain welcomed us there as well. After an interesting and at times awkward experience staying at an all female hostel, we were back to the North Island. (note to self:avoid female hostels, you WILL be ...

... and a deer. Weirdly enough, there is a deer farm close to my house. Apparently, deer horn velvet is a large export to Japan. Also, we went to Brick Bay Sculpture Trail which is an hour long trail with modern art sculptures throughout. This was really awesome, and had I been by myself I would have probably would have spent a lot more time there. Adam (Pam and Tom's son) took us to a party on Friday night. What an experience. The legal drinking age is eighteen here and so that ...

The work Jo got us to do the day after was good fun - weeding, planting, chopping logs, cutting up fallen pear tree branches, digging out thistles in the paddocks and clearing an area used to grow HUGE pumpkins! We were bloody knackered by the end of the day!! Of course, my day wouldn't be complete without some cock up occuring, and this one was of my own devising. I thought it ...