The Easter holiday here consists of Good Friday and Easter Monday. We realized what a serious holiday this is for the Kiwis... They're heading into winter which brings colder, rainier weather, and Easter is the LAST Holiday for them until October! That's FIVE months (winter months) without a day off...the inhumanity! So the Easter holiday is a big travel weekend for most Kiwi's. We chose to stick around Gisborne and just relax, instead.
We went out to a reef north of town one afternoon. Jonathan had a great time searching for little starfish, and crabs. Here's his collection...Three starfish, two tiny hermit crabs and one mudskipper (the fish). The boys carried them around in their bucket for a while and then let them all go before we went home.
Easter afternoon, we went out to Gray's Bush (a small forested area with walking trails) and hid Easter candy for the boys. They had a great time searching for it, and an even better time eating eat!
We hiked up to the top of Makarori Point on Saturday morning. It's not a long hike, but it's pretty steep. When you get to the top there's a wide open grassy area that the boys had fun running around in, plus the views from up there are amazing!
One evening we went out to the beach and right by the parking lot is a trampoline (once again, something you would NEVER see in the States). So we burned off some energy jumping around for a while.
We're kind of in wind down mode around here. The evenings are getting pretty short, it's dark by 6:00, so we've been trying to find indoor activities to amuse ourselves with. Since Brad can't surf in the evenings after work anymore, he's starting to look forward to fishing back in Kansas, and the rest of us are looking forward to our return, as well. Only 3 1/2 more weeks!
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