Rotorua

Rotorua was high on the kids' wish list for things to do in NZ. The main reason was that their cousin Katrice had told them about something called Zorbing. It's where you climb into a giant water filled ball and gets pushed down a hill. Sounds like fun? Apparently it is, even if I could think of many things I'd rather do! The kids absolutely loved it. It was pretty expensive but they even went a second time paying for it with their souvenir money. Experiences and memories are the best souvenirs so I think that was a good choice since that clearly was one of the high lights of the trip so far.

Another high light was when we went on luges down a mountain. First we took a gondola ride up and then we could choose three different paths to go down. We all went down several times and it was a lot of fun!