Sweet Home Roturo

On the 21st after being bombarded with request for moisturiser, do i look like a guy who moisturises we left national park and head to Rotorua for our first WWOOFing placement. after a painfully slow bus ride with 2hr delays and petrol stops on the way we finally arrived and met Caleb at the bus stop and made our way to our home for home. It was a converted barn with beautiful vegetable gardens with wonderful views of the rolling green hills. (when we arrived it was dark but it was quite a sight to wake up to). The following day we started work doing general maintenance jobs around the farm, strimming grass, replanting trees etc. As well as the family of 5 they have, cows, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, donkeys, pigs, fish and a horse so i don't think there is going to be a shortage of work. Sunday we went to the family's church service, all of them, they have an hr 'sunday school' before the main service where we were just spoken to for an hr, not really the most engaging way to spend an hr, then we had the service, which was nice enough few songs passionate sermon then half a song. After this we went round the town which wasn't a dump as the Germans (course it was) had told us, and quite enjoyed the garden and a nice internet cafe. Then we were picked up went to the evening service, same as the morning with a few testimonies added in then off home for the all important rugby. The following day we went out with Steve in the van to be furniture removal men. but were just so good we got the job done within hours which gave us the rest of the day off. so what better way to spent it than going out on kayaks. after a bit of a bumpy ride in the back of the van we reached the lake and when exploring, we found a stream mildly obstructed with shallow waters, brambles and a few trees and decided to see how far up it we could get, after ramming our way through a few bushes we finally met out match when a blooming great tree had fallen in the middle of the stream making it rather tricky to get round, so they put an end to our adventure but not to the fun. when we got back we decided to go for a swim. even though the water wasn't that warm it just wouldn't been the Womacks if we didn't go in, eventually after deciding it was a bit cold to enjoy the swim we spotted a prime bridge to jump off. so we made our way round the shoreline and after plucking up the courage cannonballed into the water a good few meters below, to my delight and surprise it was pleasantly warm here so one jump just wouldn't do and we spent a while jumping of the bridge in various manners. after the excitement of the previous days we spent the 25th gardening and being removal men, but we did fit in time for a waterfall but there's more to come about that later.