Camping is so relaxing

What a wonderful four days we have had. Sun, sand, good company, good wine and good food with a smidgen of sheep shit and the odd mozzie!

We managed to get packed up in miracle time on Thursday and left about 9.15am on good Friday for Tapapakanga regional park which is about one hour south of auckland.

We did however manage to get lost (well when I see "we", I mean HE) and our one hour journey took us three, which to give him his due did include one stop at a service station and one stop for breakfast (or brunch by the time we got there).

So after our shakey start we found the campground which was covered in sheep shit, but after we scooped it up we pitched the tent and then had a beer followed by a swim. Heaven.

Camped with one other family and had a ball. We swam, ate, drank, read, fished and relaxed. The kids managed to ride their bikes, play games, do an Easter Egg hunt, make rafts and race them down the river, dig up and cook pipi's and mussles, make smores, read, swim, make a giant slingshot and make a possum trap - all good fun and all in four days.

Saturday was my birthday and we made a celebration brunch and then some visitors arrived for the day. We went to the beach and sat around drinking most of the afternoon, then back for a lazy dinner and a show put on by the kids. Visitors left and we went off to bed. All in all not a bad way to spend my 42nd birthday and see in my 43rd year.

Nice to be home. Most of the unpacking was completed before I had to go to work tonight. Relaxing is over and it is back to reality and an assignment which needs to be done by Monday morning!