Fun weekend!

So it was my first full weekend on the north island! On sat I slept in a bit and then went to breakfast at this cafe in town, which was delicious! The I headed out to hike the mountain that overlooks te Aroha. I thought it was going to be a leasirly stroll up to the top. Wrong! It was basically a 2 hour hike straight up the whole time, jeezo! By the time I got to the top I was knackered and I still had to come back down! But it was actually really pretty and the view was amazing, so it was totally worth it! Just beautiful! By the time I got back down it was mid afternoon so I just followed signs towards more nature things to see what popped up. There was a random track that I drove down which wasn't super interesting except that I met a horse at the other end of it so that was cool. Then I drove to a waterfall nearby and hiked up to the lookout point there. It meant another hike for my already tired legs but it was a really nice hike along a river and the falls were very pretty! By then it was evening so I was too tired to bother cooking so I got a Chinese takeaway and chilled the rest of the night.

Sun I got up early (not early enough to watch the rugby, but all blacks won!) and headed to waitomo caves to see the glow worms. It was really pretty seeing the and then I did some cave climbing and rafting in the dark which was really fun too, though quite cold! I even climed up a waterfall to get out, though initially I was a little terrified! On the way home I saw a sign for a kiwi place so I pulled in there and was just in time for the kiwi feeding! So I got to see her running around and even attack the handler when he was trying to feed her, pretty cute!! And I got to see a tuatara!! Which was awesome! By then it was later so I finally had to head home and now just doing some vet prep before bed and work tomorrow!