Saturday 2 May 2015

3 May 2015 - Tui Glen, Henderson



The days have passed as have the kilometres beneath our wheels. Alas the chest congestion has merely passed from one to the other, and our social plans have been severely curtailed. We subjected my  cousin and his wife to our germs, eating and drinking our way through their hospitality despite our so-called invalid status, then did the same to my sister further north in the rural regions of Rotorua, although there it was more food than drink. We detoured via Tauranga where we stayed at the NZMCA Park there to facilitate a visit to our Larissa at Waihi Beach, a brief call to pick up mail and arrange a delayed full family visit given their busy schedule, a call that turned into lunch with the extra bonus of her husband stopping by between contracts. 

Then, on to Auckland where we patronised the excellent NZMCA Park at Takanini, now almost a second home to us, and then on yesterday to call upon our youngest, Olly and his family. A bad night fighting for oxygen suggested we spent only a few hours there, so while we were delighted to catch up with the family, we were even more delighted to spend the rest of the day resting. And it would seem that that even more rest is the best plan for the next few days before we make our final run back to Whangarei to see the rest of our immediate family.

It would seem too, that will coincide with the tail of a storm that rushed through south east Queensland wrecking damage and causing loss of life. What with that, the never ending wars of the Middle East and the devastation earthquake in Nepal, the arrival of a new female heir to the British throne is a ray of sunshine. As was too my mistake this morning in calling my mother to wish her a Happy Mother’s Day; it would seem that it is the second Sunday in May, not the first. Goes to show how not celebrated this annual day is in our household! It did however create much mirth all round.
Road trip around New Zealand