Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Summer Holiday Part 3: Camping in Motueka

After we finished walking the Abel Tasman Track, we headed over to Motueka for a week's camping.  Motueka is the land of sun and fruit orchards....

Our campsite was AMAZING! Just what the doctor ordered after 3 days of walking. We had a nice shady spot with plenty of space to sit outside and read, or play swing tennis....


Plenty of space to play cricket too....


But we didn't just need to make our own games, as the campsite had some excellent facilities. The kids spent one morning cycling all over the place on these excellent fun bikes....



There was also a GREAT swimming pool, complete with water slide and climbing wall...this was very well used during our stay!


Every night, the campsite put on movies for all the kids. It was very strange to have our kids go out in the evenings for a couple of hours - we'd be in our PJ's at 10pm looking at our watches and waiting for them to come home!! ;)

There was also a giant jumping pillow. I love those things. (Jake & I even had a few goes!)


Unfortunately during the week Molly became unwell with a suspected flu or ear infection (or perhaps both?) which wiped her out with a high fever for a few days. All she could do was sleep and read :( 

And read a bit more....(she got through nearly a whole Harry Potter book in 3 days!)


But towards the end of the week she perked up again, and managed to have fun. We went boysenberry picking one day - between us all we picked 1 kg and ate approximately 4 kgs!


 And we went kayaking...where the kids saw a stingray!


We had fresh fruit ice creams from the local orchards...


We all played in the swimming pool some more....and some more.....and some more!


The kids jumped in as many times as they could!


We went to beaches and paddled around - and went swimming in the ocean too.


We read books on the beach (and Jake played with his emails)....


And generally just had a really really lovely time. Happy Holidays everyone!

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