At 8.30am we were ready to start the farm jobs, we noticed the lambs were trying to escape so went over to close the gate. We fed the chooks and piglets and bottle fed the lambs. The most exciting farm job today was rounding up the horses to the yard on the quad bike. We pretended to bark like dogs to help get those horses moving. We did a fine job and Farmer Ngaire was very pleased.

 

 

After we packed the car we went down the the yard to say goodbye to the horses. Belinda said we could sit on the lead horse and brush the horses.  Jennifer was very excited but we all thought this was just terrific.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our farm house

 

 

 

 

After having so much fun, we sadly left the farm for our drive to Rotorua. We needed some petrol so pushed the buttons to ask Tom Tom to take us to a petrol station, we headed off to a Shell at Ngatea.  We started to get a bit concerned when we left the highway and headed inland and when we arrived at the destination we found that there was absolutely nothing there.  Now, short on fuel, we wonder where our next journey will take us, but alas in a round about way we ended up at Paeroa. After we filled up with fuel we stopped for a play in the playground before continuing our journey to Rotorua. We continued an off the highway track route through gorgeous country side to Rotorua.  We thought we would see lots of sheep on the way but we saw lots of dairy cows. James and Jennifer were fascinated at watching the cows at farm after farm after farm, following the leader to the dairy for milking.

As we drove into Rotorua we noticed the smell straight away. We all laughed when Jennifer thought James’ pants needed changing but he wasn’t to blame after all!

We were welcomed to Atsala Apartments by Ian who assured us we would love Rotorua and we think he is probably right.