Thursday - I fell off my scooter by running into a tree and took a chunk out of my knee. Watch out for NZ trees, they can hurt. (Not true!. Found out later that the front wheel of the scooter fell into a pot hole.)

Monday - We went kayaking on the Hamilton Lake. 

Saturday - Mum left to go to the South Island. So dad and I went to the Otoroghanga fair. There were rides (I didn't go on any) but what I liked most was the sheep shearing. In the final round to see who was winner, the shearers had to shear 20 sheep! The wool was flying. All together, everyone in the last round sheared 100 sheep. That's a lot of sheep for 5 people. The time was 16, 39, 94. Wow. A hundred sheep in that time. Amazing. 

Tuesday - We went out to Raglan and played in the tidal pools with windsurfers and blo-karts racing past in the wind. 

Sunday - We went to the zoo and walked through the aviary. There were ostriches with eggs, but not sitting on them.