Turangi weekend

Another weekend , another adventure afoot for this girl .

The weekend in question was the 13/14th Jan . The plan was to do a navigation course at OPC at National Park and then spent some time with Grover (my flatmate of many years ago) and his girlfriend & parents.

Well i decided to drive up on the Saturday morning like early early , getting up at 4am, it was worth getting up early early has the road were clear and the sunrise was simply beautiful with dusty pinks and roving italics.

The navigation course was great there were four of us so we got a lot of individual attention. I must admit of was pretty tired so taking things in was a little hard. But the main things i learnt were how anyways know where north is use a bearing (i really like this means of getting from point A to point B) , calculating time for route choice. We did this afternoon practice , it rained the compete time.... 4.5 hours worth . My feet got so wet they were wrinkled when i removed them from my shoes. Well worth the $160 course fee.

When what i was really looking forward too seeing the "Grover"clan it was nice and relaxing , with good food , and good company. I got there a little late, but it wasn't a problem . We had a beautiful dinner only mom's have the skill to made: with gravy and peas ummm .

The "plan" was to going the 42 transverse the next day but with BIG downpour the day before it was abit So me and Grover set off to do some more low key MTB like Tree trunk gorge track which is a big thumbs up in the Kennett's MTB. The conditions won - both Grover and i were soaked to the bone as there was a lot over grown 4WD tracks that face/ chest. the trees that lined these were water heavy .... wak , branch in face ... hit , mouth full of strange leaves.

The wonderful end to this weekend was Liam cooking dinner for me David and Corrine. His famous roast pork and some wonderful wheat-free muffins.