I thought that I would use the age old literary device of a cliff hanger to build the tension.
So after a lazy lunch on 13th September we headed out for Papamoa on the Bay of Plenty, looking at the map I had guessed it was about 2-3 hours. Aimee programmed the sat nav and off we set, still relaxed from our foot spa.
After about 2.5 hours drive time, about 5.15pm we arrived at a large supermarket and stopped to buy our tea, we grabbed some crusty bread, cheese and veg to make a tomato sauce. I was guessing that we were near to our destination now as I had started to see signs for things we would be doing the next day.
Back on the road sat nav guiding us we carried on enjoying the drive as we went up and down mountains getting more and more remote, all the time the sat nav giving us directions. Something should really have clicked when we started to go over the second mountain but it wasn't until we saw the welcome to Rotorua sign that we clocked we might be going the wrong way. We pulled over and checked where the sat nav was actually taking us.
Rotorua town centre! How did that get in there?
After putting the correct directions in we realised that we about 5 minutes away from the camp site when we left the super market. We were now an hour away from our destination, the time was 6.45 and the site doors shut at 8.
There was much less singing and joking on the trip back over the mountains, each bend that had seemed so fun on the way out now felt like a deliberate attempt to slow us down.
We made it by 7.50 and were greeted by two very friendly reception staff who played us Stevie Wonder I just called to say I love you and made me sing the chorus back to Aimee (and gave us two of the most delicious golden kiwifruit).
No harm no foul but from now on I will be checking the sign posts as we go, just in case.
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