Sarah woke me up as our initial idea that the mouse had left was a little off, we got woken up by a nibbling sound in the food shelf, when I went to have a look the mouse must have heard me coming and darted off, but our rice had a hole chewed in it and a few slices of bread was missing their corners... Little s***. We set up some manual traps which were two piles of rice and myself and Sarah with a box each waiting for the mouse to show itself.. Safe to say this...

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...

Started the day bright and early so we could have breakfast and get to the start of the crossing early, we swung by a petrol station on route and asked there what the situation with transport back to the car park was, they told us the shuttle wasn't running that day so we ended up hopping on the coach to the car park that would then pick us up later, after a short drive we were at the start of the walk and under way, it started with a fairly easy ascent and we go...

Woke up at a reasonable hour but decided to stay in bed for a while playing Pokemon, we were in no rush today so was well keen for some more time in a bed to myself! I got out of bed mid morning and did the responsible adult thing of having a cookie for breakfast, we lounged about on the sofa ad watched The Hobbit and then I made myself a quick lunch, we then watched Les Miserable and Iron Man 3, had a proper movie and couch day for the first time in months! We w...