Were Going To Rainbow Mountain

Monday was another day off, as we had just work so well the previous week we had been granted a break, and the chance to go exploring. At first this was going to be a wee problem - not having a car and being in the middle of nowhere made it a bit tricky to see anything; but were two lucky lads and Caleb lent us his car for the day. We had been told by the family about the magical rainbow mountain and some cool hot springs so went to investigate. The sights were just a short drive away and made for a mornings entertainment. First to scale the Rainbow, supposedly a 3hr return. The walk started rather basic and flat taking us to a volcanic lake viewing point, which was nice. From there thing started to get a bit steep. The peak was only 738m but it got there rather quickly. In fact it took us around 35min from the lake to the top. Once on top of the rainbow we stopped to catch our breath and take a few snaps before strolling back down doing the hole trip in 1hr 30mins. It was then back into the car and over to the hot river. Due to the rive and under ground volcanic activity sharing the same spot a hot water ran through the valley. Pretty awesome ay. After crawling down the gravely track which seemed to also be a mass grave for pot holes we parked up and strolling through the trees we found this natural wonder and proceeded to enjoy it. We had a good amount of time till our old friends the Germans terned up and strutted there stuff in the river as well, so we saw this as our queue to leave. Once back home we put or feet up and got round to the serious business of trivial pursuit! A gripping game made even more interesting due to half the team not been fluent in the same language as the questions. But after a nail biting finish Davey came out victorious; the English had beaten the odds and dealt the Germans a crushing defeat (again). By the 1st we had run out of stuff to do but still had one rest day left, so we did the only thing one does in this situation. Abuse the pizza hut buffet. It was a pretty good deal apart from being now bottomless drinks you got pizza, salad (for some reason) AND chips along with desert. so we had a jolly good stuffing until our rhythm was interrupted by a school trip. Not sure how pizza hut qualify for a school trip but it does and so like a plague of locus they devoured every pizza insight; so we moved onto desert. Eventual we finished eating and when home to lie down and recover. Wednesday was our last day in Rotorua and we spent the morning doing a final bit of work. But once that was over it was time for a bit of fun with a rugby ball. The widest space to play was the paddock but sharing it was the animals and there excrement gave a new level of excitement to the game. After tiring ourselves dogging poo, we showered off and made our goodbye dish off pizza a chips before for relaxing infront of the T.V with the family for one last time.