Matarangi

Matarangi's Trip

We were away for 3 days at Coromandel Peninsula. It was about 3 hours drive from Auckland. One of Peter's clients had offered us the accommodation at one of the beachfront villas. During our stay, Peter was working at the worksite every day. As a resut, the girls were with me. There is a beautiful golf course, tennis and bowling facilities *not the ten pins bowling and of course the beach.

It is very relaxing but rather quiet with only 3 of us at the beach most of the times. Although it was a short trip the children enjoyed themselves very much.

As usual, Kimberley is "The One" who dares to do a lot of stuffs that I would not even dare. She wanted to bring her body board along for her surfing but I would not allow it. Apparently, the wave is very rough because that is Pacific Ocean! Eventually, she took a swim in the sea within my close watch. Although Kimberley is quite a good swimmer I was still very concerned. I was consistantly nagging at her about the danger. I guess she must be very sick with my nagging!

For Kathlynn, very simple job she spent her time playing with the sand. She loves to build sandcastles and mixing the sand for her "cooking". Although she likes to play in the water she is cautious about her capability. Unlike her sister, Hokkien - Mm Chie See.

Anyway, we had lots of fun during the trip. There is only thing that put the girls off is the driving.....Coastal driving and the mountain's road. Very sharp corner..the speed is always 25/35/25/35 km/per hour. The girls almost throw up when we were returning to Auckland.

Well, both Peter and myself told the girls that in order to overcome their fear about the drive we should make more trips in the near future. Crazy Parent!

Guess what? we will be going again next week!

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Elaine