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Yesterday we took a bus to Rotorua, which is a city north of Auckland (Yeah! I spelled it right! :-) and has a strong mauri presence. Our bus left at 8am and we were told it was a 3-hour ride. We made lots of stops, so it ended up being a little over 4 hours and we didn't get there until about 12:30. We ate lunch at Nando's (Portuguese food...yummy) and then went on a gondola ride. It was absolutely gorgeous!

We got to go on a couple luge rides. This was so fun! Our kids would have loved it. Mike sped up on the last ride so that he could get a video of me coming down, but he couldn't find the camera in his pocket. He assumed I must have had it. Nope. We started getting pretty stressed and went to go look for it. Not one minute later, a nice family behind us came and gave it to us, saying they found it at the bottom of the luge track. It's all dinged up now, but it still works!

The day before we had taken a ferry to Devonport, which is a nearby island. It was also absolutely breathtaking! It used to be used as a military base. They used this weapon that they would use water to hydrolically lift out of the hole in the mountain to come up, shoot, and go back down where no one could see. Freakn awesome.

This hideout is at the top of the island, which is a big climb. Check out the gorgeous view!