North Island part 5

Morning reading with Magda! (Magda reporting in...for now)

(Meg here-if only they got along like this all the time.)

Ruapeha!

(Headed to hike around this volcano! Mt Ruapehu is in Tongariro National Park, which also has the Tongariro crossing, which was one of my favorite hikes last time-bright blue and green crater lakes...not gonna happen this time!!)

Lucy, Frankie, and Van. The Super Babies!!!!!!!!!

More Super baby pictures.

Some real tramping!

(Very rocky lava field terrain!)

There were lots of little rivers.

(Shoes got quite wet this time.)

(Mom's taking more flower pictures!)

Go tramping!

There was lots of mist and rain. (At the end of our tramp, we were very wet.)

Go Dad, Lena, and Magda!

Near the end of our tramp, it got very muddy.

(We were basically walking in a stream)

Beautiful waterfalls.

Yay uno!

More pretty pictures.

(Here are the views that we couldn't see yesterday!

Going back to the car.

Magda, and the scenery.

Let's go, Frankie, let's go!

More pretty pictures.

(had to get all the things we disnt see yesterday because of the fog and rain!)

Magda, and some icicles that we found on the trail.

More icicle pictures!

(This is Violet) we were sitting down because we were so tired.

We were almost on the top of the hill.

We saw lots of icicles and there was pointy tops.

(The ice was so fun! not sure how it all freezes into these little shards, but super fun)

There's a mountain. and we were climbing up it.

(trying a panoramic view)

We had our rest.

Daddy lift me up and it was silly.

(Giant steps and rocks for those little legs! She just needed a little ride this time)

We could see our car from here!

Mommy took a picture of these.

This one we got to get kebabs. In mine there was lamb, gherkins and cucumbers and stuff (tabouli! yum), but we had sauce but we can't remember what sauces I had.

(This was the kebab place j and I frequented in Whanganui, so good. so, so good.)

We saw grapes!

We saw lamb and just sheep but mostly sheep in there.

We got ice cream! Frankie got ice cream. All of us got ice cream. But Magda ate two because I was tired of mine. And Magda ate almost all.

We were walking to our car because from the ice cream because it was very tiring

(maniacal laugh).

(Perfect halfway place to stop-this was one of the 'real fruit' ice cream places, where they mix up your ice cream, made to order. Van got raspberry (with chocolate), and everyone else got peanut butter (with chocolate). Yummy!)

Brought to you by these two! ❤️