Donor does Rotovegas!

[Donor]

So yeah, in 'vegas for a week with the Mrs and the chittlings, staying in a holiday home owned by the work social club.

Now things are tight as they always are, and all the tourist traps are fookin' expensive - so where can I drag the flock to have them ooh and ahh over this fine city, that is acceptable to the wallet, without lining the pockets of the bastard tourist fleecing sods that run the good parts of this town?

We've done Kuirau Park, but that's a 10 minute wonder, and we're here til Sunday - so if anyone has some cheap or better yet FREE parts of 'vegas that we could traipse around to, that'd be mint :)

(Now, how do I get gijoe1313 to deliver an egg burger down this way??) :sweatdrop

:edit: Oh, and thank god for locals with unsecured wireless connections! :D

[Toot Toot]

You come across the ghosts in that house yet bro? That will provide some entertainment for the kiddies. :)

[CookMySock]

thank god for locals with unsecured wireless connections! :DYep, share and enjoy. I leave mine unsecured for the same reason.

Well theres kerosene creek, swim at Rotoma, walk from tarawera outlet to the falls (excellant), swim at thorton beach, fish and chips at kawerau, watch the helicopters and jetboats at the lake front, drive around through murupara (swim at black road), visit whakatane for the day, ohope beach.

If you want to spend money on one tourist attraction, I'd make it Waimangu Thermal Valley. It'll cost ya 100bux but I am told its excellant.

Steve

[Donor]

You come across the ghosts in that house yet bro? That will provide some entertainment for the kiddies. :)

Pfft, ghosts my hairy freckle - I'm scarey at night when I'm tired and the Mrs is extra scarey first thing in the morning, so any spooks better be pretty bloody comitted when it comes to haunting with us around :)

[Donor]

Yep, share and enjoy. I leave mine unsecured for the same reason.

Well theres kerosene creek, swim at Rotoma, walk from tarawera outlet to the falls (excellant), swim at thorton beach, fish and chips at kawerau, watch the helicopters and jetboats at the lake front, drive around through murupara (swim at black road), visit whakatane for the day, ohope beach.

If you want to spend money on one tourist attraction, I'd make it Waimangu Thermal Valley. It'll cost ya 100bux but I am told its excellant.

Steve

Brilliant - Mr DB, you can be a regular fount of knowledge from time to time - amongst other things, but then can't we all :D

[Firefight]

[QUOTE=Donor;1129606973]So yeah, in 'vegas , staying in a holiday home owned by the work social club.


ah yes a great little house, have stayed there myself a few times, check the visitors book, have u seen the ghost yet ?

F/F

[Donor]

ah yes a great little house, have stayed there myself a few times, check the visitors book, have u seen the ghost yet ?

F/F

Nope - no ghost, though it gets noisy when the house settles at night!

Have tried to encourage it, taunt it and been generally rude about spectres, ghouls, ghosties and all things that go bump in the night, but the bastard seems to have gone on holiday also. Anyone got any tips how to get things happening? Not going to have anything exciting to add to the visitors book at this rate.

On the plus side, the weather today is fucking MINT!

Downside to the plus side, I don't have a bike to ride... *sigh*

[P38]

Blue lake has some awesome swimming and boating.

Theres a walking track around it that'll take about 2 hours to complete. Easy walk even for little Kids

Have a swim, walk the track and swim some more on the way round, take a picnic and stop half way to enjoy it, complete the walk then ice creams at the Top 10 holiday park shop on the way home.

That should take up most of a day and cost only a few $$$$ per person.

[Donor]

Well, we bit the bullet today and went all tourist - shot out to Orakei Korako.

Have been there before, about 20 odd years ago!

Kids loved it, we landed at the jetty and just as we got off, one of the geysers went off, bloody brilliant!

Managed to do the walk in just over an hour and a half, by then the 4 year old was fading a bit so we jumped on the ferry, headed back and celebrated our conquering of the 'hood with some well over priced ice cream and ginger beer.

From there, we drove cross country and went to Huka Falls, the kiddlies were fascinated by the crashing water, and I was captivated by the skank wearing SFA :) (There were even a few buff blokes for Mrs D to stare at)

On the way home, we kept seeing signs outside the Mill booze merchants (folk in these parts clearly like their drink) advertising Beer Balls - 2 for 5 squids. I had no idea what the hell a Beer Ball was, so for the cost of a fiver, I purchased 1.6 litres of beer - a tightwads dream! I'm on number 2 now, and by the gods, it's not bad for cheap piss! Might have to send the 8 year old up the road to get more... oh wait, not in south auckland now are we? BUGGER!

It'll be red wine shortly...

So, tomorrow is pizza at the lakefront, and maybe a dip at the aquatic centre, then a quiet arvo back at the house with more ghost taunting and reflection on an awesome week. Saturday arvo we'll be back north, so's I can get a home kip in before the 0600 grind begins again... sigh...

Right... where's me balls... errr, ball... I mean beer...

[Donor]

Well, we're home.

Wish we weren't, but we are - the week has flown by, and we had the house til Monday morning but alas, work and grumpy kiddlings meant we had to up pegs and come back a bit earlier.

Ah well, there's always next time! :)