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| biking and exploring in Rotorua |
Oak: "I never thought our family would go on a biking vacation." Oak's friends' families do this regularly, but now he's not quite as deprived as he used to be. :)
Sage: "I totally get why you like biking so much now!" (Sage to Oak after riding 'The Dipper' with Mercy. 'The Dipper' is one of the easy bike trails at the Rotorua mountain biking site.)
After a day at Rotorua, we spent two days on the Timber Trail.
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| Timber Trail!!! 2-Day gem of a bike trail. Deep, deep green. |
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| Timber Trail - forest bathing in Green-ness |
The following photos of Timber Trail are not my own, but they give a better idea than mine. It felt otherworldly. These pictures jog my memory.
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| Pukekura Park Festival of Lights is just a few minutes from our house. It's quite extraordinary, even holding the honor of being the most expensive property on the NZ Monopoly Board. Our evening at the Festival has become my new association with the song "Time in a Bottle," both because of the feeling we had and because we listened to this song in MAVY both coming and going. |
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New Year's Eve - a new tradition.
Mike and I decided to shake things up. We broke a 12-year tradition and did NOT plan a New Year's party; yet we felt vicariously epic through Oak and Mercy. They camped on Mt. Taranaki to see the sun set on 2017 and rise on 2018.
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| Danny and I hosted a lunch party for friends and Mr. Prasad and went on some memorable drives. |
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| last dinnertime before Danny left |
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