After 3 days over Christmas with Alex, Sarah and our Grandchildren Ayden and Liam, and after eating and drinking far too much 🙂 , it was time to head to Taupo and start making our way down to Martinborough and Cape Palliser. We had a great Christmas with Sarah’s family parked in their driveway with Rafe.
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On the way south, we stopped at the Hamilton Car Museum where we had stayed a month or so ago with the Dethleffs Owners group rally. We’d parked 75 odd Motorhomes here on the first day and it looked very different today.. See the piccies below.
I was a bit panicked that about what we might find in the way of Christmas Traffic but it was not to be. The traffic was pretty good.
We were meeting up with friends from Snells Beach(North of Auckland) Rob, Helen and Chloe who had been in Taupo for Christmas, and Gary and Dianne who live in Taupo. We were spending the night at their place and then heading on in convoy to Cape Palliser over the next few weeks.
We arrived in Taupo right on the dot of 3pm and Gary and Dianne were outside helping Rob back the Tracker into position so we could park along side. They had just arrived so perfect timing.
After settling Rafe and the Tracker down, we were off for a drink by the BBQ! .. As you do.
We last saw Gary and Dianne at the Dethleffs do at Hamilton where Gary and I were the parking attendants and Di organised the event. It was nice to see them again. It had been a while since we saw Rob, Helen and Chloe too .. Great to see them too.
We were really looking forward to getting away as we’d been stuck in Auckland with pre Christmassy catchups and events.
A great fun night around the BBQ and we all crashed fairly early.
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