Day 337
Sunday 3rd February 2008
Blue Island Holiday Park, Rotorua, Day 2
Rotorua is a beautiful, smelly place..but Blue Lakes is clean and fresh and has a great forest walk! We spend today, Sunday, going for a 5km walk up and down the forest trail around the lake. So relaxing! And that’s what we needed after all the driving! Vigorous exercise! It was great!
We visited Gwen today..and found her home! She is a friend of Mum and Uncle John’s. The place where she lives started is attached to an old people’s hospital . Her place is a unit of four , in a different section but when we first arrived we wondered whether we were visiting someone who wouldn’t know us at all!
We went to the wrong place! It was the wing for dementia patients! Anyway………we finally found Gwen, in her unit, and she was so gorgeous. We’d never met her before, and were visiting on mum and John’s behalf, but by the time we left, we felt we’d known this lovely lady forever! She shared so many stories. Elderly people have so much to offer..so many anecdotes and past experiences that can only make us feel very humble .
After our Sunday visit we passed the Polenisian Spa and decided to drop in…we found ourselves experiencing Rotorua’s natural hot springs in the form of a private spa that had this incredible view of the mudflats! Decadent! We felt like the king and queen. We hadn’t had a bath since Krakow in Poland where, for one night, we had a bath in the apartment we were in!!! So nice……it surely beat the Turkish Baths, which were must less private! (And where Greg had a harrowing experience..hmm.)
We slept like babies!
