Woke up and the rain had stopped! Praise sweet 6lb4oz baby Jesus! We discovered as we got up however that we had somehow acquired a mouse in Albert over night (well Sarah thought we had) so we emptied all our stuff out of Albert and found no mouse, we then reloaded Albert with all our stuff and I went into the glove box to get the map and the bloody mouse jumped over my hand and into a hole in the glove box straight into the dash board! This of course got my man ...

Got up and it was raining again, not enjoying this weather in the slightest.. We decided to head up to Taupo to see if the weather was any better up there so after breakfast we got back on the road and headed up the highway for a couple of hours towards Taupo and it rained the whole time, we got to Taupo in the rain and went straight to the I-site, they told us there wasn't much to do when the weather was bad and have us a map of local attractions, we went to vi...