Adventuring with Inica

Inica has just been to visit me from Geelong, Australia, for her 30th birthday :) We had heaps of fun and plenty of D&M's between our adventures. Inica and I did an exchange together when we were 14 years old. I spent nearly 4 months with her family in Aussie, and then she spent the next 4 months with mine back in Auckland. We've been very close ever since and have caught up every few years back and forth across the Tasman Sea. We started off the week black water rafting in Waitomo, and then Zorbing in Rotorua. Wow, both were total adrenalin rushes!!! Then we spent a couple of nights with my cousins at a beautiful and isolated spot off Lake Rotoma before heading back up via the Te Aroha Mineral Pools to have dinner with my bro and sis in Auckland. Then Mum and I took Inica and Granny up to Tapeka Point for another few leisurely days. We stopped at Parry Kauri Tree Park for a short loop walk on the way up... another wee attraction I'd been longing to inspect after promoting it with TNZ :) On Inica's last night Neroli, a friend of mine from Osaka Gaidai, and some other friends from St Pauls took her for her first Japanese meal in the city - which she loved! A big THANK YOU to Ben, Inica's husband, for sponsoring our wonderful birthday week together!