Since our last post, we have picked up our spaceship. It’s called Virgo.
Virgo
Friday, by all accounts, was a horrible day. We tried (and failed) to stay awake until night time. We spent the afternoon in the city centre, having a look around some shops, but we weren’t fit for much else!
Yesterday, we picked up the camper van, so that took a while, by the time we were shown how everything works. All the spaceships have names, all sci-fi or space themed – ours is virgo. We also saw Luke, Padwan, and Sabre.
We headed North out of Auckland and made a stop for some supplies. Not having any real idea where we were headed, we stopped at a tourist information centre in a town called Warkworth and picked up some leaflets and maps.
At this point, we decided just to stay around there and not head any further, so we headed to a recommended campsite – called Sandspit, on the coast. So that’s where we are now.
We spent the rest of yesterday relaxing and sorting out our stuff. Jonny is in his element – he spent the afternoon tidying and sorting out our suitcases (the obsessive compulsive in him is loving the need to be tidy) and I sat in the sun and read my book. So everyone was happy! We even managed to cook on our gas stove!
Jill and Donald
We finished off the day watching an episode of house on the wee DVD player in the camper van. (Background: in the summer we decided we needed a new show to watch and, knowing nothing about it, bought the first 3 series of house…and we love it! Before we left, we had watched series 1 and half of series 2, and, knowing we would have a dvd player, brought the other discs with us! So it’s like being at home again! Except we’re basically sleeping in a car!!)
So that’s where we’re up to now and we’re heading north to the Bay of Islands.
