Back to National Park - Tongariro

The group had decided that we loved our Stray driver, 'Motors' was full of beans, and managed to get us from A-B describing important features and parts of history along the way in her own funny way. My favourite part was when we stopped in the small town of Ohakune to look at a giant carrot, This had been designed as it was the best area in New Zealand for growing the carrot. There are many big scultures scatteed in various places around the islands, including a large salmon and fruit. The bus consisted of about 21, mainly girls and 4 boys! We stopped from place to place testing various flavours of New Zealand pie, my fave, the steak and cheese :-).  We arrived at National park where the probibility of some of the group wanting to do the crossing was looking bleak. I felt licky that i had managed to do it a week ago in perfect conditions. We spent the night playing cards, watching movies and finally having a few wines in the two hot tubs which were available to guests outside. It was cool sitting in the hot steamy water with the heavy rain pouring onto our heads, - very refrshing.