The recent lot of holidays haven't been the greatest holidays ever. The weather for the first three weeks especially was most atrocious. Constant torrential rain. Good thing that my brother and I bought a PlayStation 3 or otherwise those weeks would have been saturated with boredom as well as rain (not to mention that I wasn't all that well). At least I was away from school!
During the fifth week of the holidays, my family and I went off to a small settlement of beach houses thirty minutes north west of Whitianga in the Coromandel Peninsula called Opito Bay. It's about a three hour drive from Manurewa. Packing was a nightmare! We took two cars, my brother's quad-bike, and a third of our house contents with us.
We left on the Saturday at 11:00am. Our original goal was to leave at 10:00am but as per usual in our family, we are always 30 - 60 minutes late of our deadline. Any way, it was good to finally get down there to begin the daunting task of unpacking and putting things away. That was kind of difficult because the bach we were staying at was about the size of our lounge and kitchen (FYI, the bach is for sale).
The first night I had the best sleep in three years. Since the beach was about thirty yards from our bach, you can guess where we spent 50% of our time. As well as that, we did heaps of relaxing, and my brother did what he did best: terrorise the sea birds on his quad.
On our fourth day there, we went to the main town of Whitianga to do some shopping. The nice thing about Whitianga is that there are no traffic lights! And that 85% of the gift and nic-nac shops sold locally made stuff. Not all made in China as is often the case. For dinner, we were to indulge in some fish and chips on the beach. But it was most disappointing. For a start, the fish and chips were literally swimming in oil. Added to that, we had an onslaught of gnats and mosquitoes.
When the day came to go home, we were all sad. The thought of going back to the regular routines of our normal lives wasn't too promising. Once again, we had to pack which, just like last time, took ages. But we eventually got there. Three hours of negotiating mountainous terrain and winding roads later, we were home. And you can guess what we did first. Unpack - which took forever. At least we could all sleep in our own beds!
We left on the Saturday at 11:00am. Our original goal was to leave at 10:00am but as per usual in our family, we are always 30 - 60 minutes late of our deadline. Any way, it was good to finally get down there to begin the daunting task of unpacking and putting things away. That was kind of difficult because the bach we were staying at was about the size of our lounge and kitchen (FYI, the bach is for sale).
The first night I had the best sleep in three years. Since the beach was about thirty yards from our bach, you can guess where we spent 50% of our time. As well as that, we did heaps of relaxing, and my brother did what he did best: terrorise the sea birds on his quad.
On our fourth day there, we went to the main town of Whitianga to do some shopping. The nice thing about Whitianga is that there are no traffic lights! And that 85% of the gift and nic-nac shops sold locally made stuff. Not all made in China as is often the case. For dinner, we were to indulge in some fish and chips on the beach. But it was most disappointing. For a start, the fish and chips were literally swimming in oil. Added to that, we had an onslaught of gnats and mosquitoes.
When the day came to go home, we were all sad. The thought of going back to the regular routines of our normal lives wasn't too promising. Once again, we had to pack which, just like last time, took ages. But we eventually got there. Three hours of negotiating mountainous terrain and winding roads later, we were home. And you can guess what we did first. Unpack - which took forever. At least we could all sleep in our own beds!
A few errors - spelling: home's contents, per usual, and some grammatical ones too.
ReplyDeleteThe place you stayed at looks lovely and it is nice that you got to go away for the holidays. Trust those pesky mosquitoes to ruin fish n chips on the beach.
Thanks for getting your first lot of homework done :)