Travel

Thursday morning we made our way to Taupo to meet up with our fly fishing guide. We had our first lesson and acquired quite a bit of info and skills. The weather wasn't the best, but we enjoyed ourselves anyways. Even though we were wearing waders, our feet and toes were frozen by the end of the day. After our lesson, we kept heading west to Hawke's Bay. We stayed two nights on the west coast in a great little hotel. On Friday we went into Napier to go to TrainWorld. We had a great time checking out the model trains and letting our inner child out.

Then we drove out to Cape Kidnappers to golf. What a beautiful course... it was right on the tip of the Cape jetting out into the Pacific Ocean. It was an extremely hard course but well worth the amount of balls Dave lost. There were drop-offs and cliffs all over the place. On Saturday we headed back to Lake Taupo. We stopped along the way at Linden Winery for a tasting and Esk Valley Olives to sample olives and extra virgin olive oil. Then we stopped at the Mohaka River so Dave could try a little fly fishing. Because of technical difficulties he was unable to catch anything, but we did have a nice picnic lunch on the river bank. Then we continued on the road to get to our hotel.