Day 9: A motel room in Rotorua

With an ex-tropical cyclone in the vicinity, all the tourist attractions we are interested in seeing were either closed or too wet to make for an enjoyable experience. As a result, we had a very quiet day hanging out in our motel room, looking outside at the rain.

Like during the cyclone that didn't quite happen in Brisbane last year, Rotorua has been fortunate to have missed any major wind damage or flooding, although other areas have not been so lucky.

We spent time this morning working what geo-thermal and cultural experiences we wanted to do whilst we are here, and how we're going to fit three days activities into the two days we will have remaining to us here. Thankfully we got to do the zorbing yesterday.

The rest of the day we spent food grazing, rain gazing, phone scrolling, tv watching and then finally tonight we ventured out to get pizza for dinner. Luckily enough we didn't go too stir crazy with us all in one small room, but I really hope the rain eases off tomorrow so we can get out and about....Read more