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What a day, think we've seen experiences of a whole week in one day. Phew, but it has been really nice!
The day began with Shelly from Great Sights picking us up from the hostel around 7.45 am for a half day tour in Rotoura. The first stop was Te Puia, a Maori family business, where you could se Kiwi birds, learn about Maori traditions, see mud pools and active geisers. Really cool!
Then we took off to Agrodome, a sheep farm. We got to see a sheep show with sheep, dogs, cows and ducks. Emelie felt bad when the guy sheared the sheep, she thought he treated the sheep as a glove and just tossed it around. Afterwards, outside you got to see sheepdogs herd the sheep into their pen, but we missed it to Krista's disappointment. The next and last stop was Rainbow Spring wild life park where we got to see some more Kiwi birds, trout, lizards, birds and so on. Pretty funny animals the Kiwi birds, this giant ball figure with hedgehog patterns and then two tiny legs at the end and a really long beak? Emelie thinks they looks like a crooked old man with a walking stick...
Then we got a lift back to the hostel ad ate some food before the next adventure began.
Around 13.30 a shuttle bus picked us up and drove one hour north west into the countryside to a place called Hobbiton. Recognise it?
Yeah that's right, we've been to the Shire ( Fylke) from the lord of the ring trilogy movies! We walked around among the hobbit houses, the lake with the bridge and the watermill, the party tree where Mary and Pippin sat and drank beer and sat fire to the dragon firework. Of course we saw Bilbo and Frodo's, Sam and Rosa's and the grumpy old man houses, hihihiii!
Also walked on the road where Gandalf went with his horse when he showed some kids the fireworks and so on, yeah you get the picture.
The guide told us really funny stories about some true Lord of the Ring fan or should we say fanatics?
There was this two meter guy who was dressed like a hobbit and when they were about to leave the Shire he refused. He said " This is my home, and I won't leave it". It took a while but eventually he got in the bus and when they dropped him off he said " Now my journey continues in the footsteps of Bilbo" and off he went.
And there was a woman who bought a Lord of the Rings ring for 300 NZD in the souvenir shop = 1800 sek and hirded a helicopter for 10 000 NZD = 60 000 sek. Then she got them to fly over the vulcano used as Mount Doom in the movies so she could throw the ring down into it, and say she destroyed the one ring that could rule them all...
And the last funny story is about a couple who new fluent elvish but the woman didn't know English so for her to understand the tour guide her husband had to translate from English to elvish.
Crazy people!
Then we watch another sheep get sheared, this time the guy was human and actually cared about the sheep. And we also got to feed some lams with milk, or Krista did. When she asked if Emelie wanted to and passed the bottle to her the lamb apparently thought we were to slow so it decided to jump up on Emelie's lap.
Then we got a snack before we took the bus home.
So now we are really exhausted and will buy some food, think it will be our favourite : Noodles!
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Mormor Noodles? Heja er!
Anita I love the nerds...
mormorwoon How exciting , and you have read the books so you knew where to go, the sheep shearing etc is old news to you krista, but nice to see agiain, I notice you never forget to eat however tired you are xxx
mormorwoon just looked again at pic and blimey another Hobbit ha ha