Today we went to Te Puia a Maori cultural experience. We saw traditional carving and weaving being done. There was a cool map showing all the theories as to where the Maori people came from. They are adamantly Polynesian but the currently accepted theory has them island hopping from south east Asia which when you look at the map does seem to make more logical sense.....
Looked out on the geyser for 45 ish minutes until Martyn uttered the dreaded phrase "mum I'm bored" and then went on little circular walk around the site.
Viewed historical village mock ups and a Marae.
Learnt a new Welsh word from passed on from Julie a friend of Isabel and Barrie. Apparently a microwave is a "poppityping" which even if a wind up is so great we shall be calling them that from now on - can our welsh contingent please confirm?
I digress so to get back on track we were lucky enough to catch a traditional Maori welcome also which was good.
The men cooked dinner which was even better - BBQ but then we had to clean BBQ which was not so good. Pudding was a Kiwano or horned melon as pictured above because we had not seen one before. Interesting was the general consensus. A bit like lemmony grapefruit passion fruit frogspawn. The only similarity to melon was the seeds as far as we could tell. K&M managed four teaspoons between them. Barrie ate half the fruit as he tried to decide what it was like!
We have decided each time we visit the supermarket we shall pick a fruit we haven't seen before and try it!
Oh and by the way - Kay is back to looking lovely again, bites and peeling just about gone so now she has a rash. Arms and legs only so far. It's great being here with a retired vet. Apparently she only need to worry if the spots become pustules! And even then all she'll need is a worming tablet and a sheep dip......
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