The 5 boys were set up to sleep together in the garage/rumpus room, so they were up pretty early, playing on their electronic devices. After a slow start (Briony had the day off but had already been on a morning run), we went off to climb the local Mt Maunganui. It was a lovely day and HM huffed and puffed her way up the mountain (250 m high). While the kids had a massive water balloon fight, the girls started the construction of a massive gingerbread house. Luckily it was well engineered, with lots of advice from the engineer and builder, and stood up despite being loaded with lollies - there was a fierce competition on which group had the best side! While the house royal icing/cement was setting, we went out to a local restaurant for a lovely pasta/pizza meal.
MJ: Catching up with Morgan.
MH: Water balloon fight! The Jelly Tip Trumpet ice cream is pretty cool too!
Logbook:
09:00 (312 km) Breakfast of toast.
10:00 (312 km) Leave for Mt Maunganui.
10:15 (322 km) Lots of steps and gravel path to go up to The Mount.
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| With the Barclay-Frank kids at Mt Manganui |
11:15 (322 km) The view was fantastic across the township, Bay of Plenty and Matakana Island.
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| Looking down from top of Mt Manganui |
11:45 (322 km) Went to lunch.
12:15 (325 km) Lunch at the shops with pies, sausage rolls, sushi and ice cream.
12:45 (325 km) Leave.
13:10 (333 km) Water balloon wars! It was good on a hot day. Make gingerbread house.
18:35 (333 km) Leave for dinner.
18:40 (335 km) OBR Italian Restaurant at Ocean Beach Road.
20:30 (342 km) Home for Trumpet ice cream dessert. Completing gingerbread house, overloaded with lollies. It had probably exceeded all engineering loading limits.