We went away for the long weekend to National Park. For those of you not in NZ, it is a tiny dot on the map about halfway up the North Island and is the gateway to the Whakapapa ski fields on Mt Ruapehu (that beautiful mountain up there ^^^). Friends of ours live up there: Terry is the principal at National Park school and Di works in the Station cafe at National Park Station. Terry has his 60th birthday weekend so they invited firends and family to join them at a ski lodge for the weekend. It was a gloriously relaxed weekend - Saturday we went into Taumaranui to the chemist and on our way back stopped at the Raurimu Spiral - an amzing piece of engineering.
Then we headed up to the mountain which had cloud swirling about it. We got up there and it was very cold but the boys found some snow to play with and we went for a little walk. Saturday night there was a lovely birthday at the Lodge.
Sunday Adrian and Colin went on a two hour walk to the Taranaki Falls with some others and I stayed at the Lodge and finsihed lots of marking. Sunday night was a roast dinner at the Station Cafe.
We drove back today through lots of rain but we were ahead of the traffic which was good. We had a lovely weekend away.
Look at the mist swirling round the mountain
7 comments:
Sounds as though you had a wonderful weekend with friends, you enjoyed a little R&R and you also found time for school work. Go you!!!
Lovely pics. We live in a beautiful country.
Love the misty photo. Shame you had to do marking on a long weekend.
One of my fav parts of the country :)
Gorgeous photos Jenny. :)
stunning!
wow what a great weekend, love that photo of the mountain in mist. I caught the train to Taumaranui and the food at the cafe is great. The spiral is amazing, I wish I had taken photos now.
I love the photo of the mist around the mountain, just beautiful. It sounds like a wonderful weekend.
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