Home Sweet Home

I forgot to blog yesterday so I will fill you in.  We were still at the place in a town I do not know of and we were on the beach so we decided to go to the beach.  When we got there it was empty of people.  The water was warm and really blue and they had amazing sea shells that were not broken into a million different pieces.  We collected shells for a while but decided to cross a small strip of water to another part of land by walking.  My mom and sister stayed on the other side of the beach.  When we got over there they had mini conch shells and we found a jellyfish.  It was almost time for the tide to come in but we stayed over there.  I started freaking out because the water was rising where we crossed earlier and that was the only way back.  When I finally got my dad to take us back it was way deeper.  It went from knee height to lower back height.  I thought I was going to get swept away.  Then we went back the the weird house and took showers and avoided tea with the owner.  That was all yesterday.  Then today we were supposed to drive around with the owner and learn about the Maori people but we avoided that too.  We got to  Gisborne around 11:45 and we decided to look around a bit.  We ate and then went to the surf shop.  We are going to start surf lessons on Wednesday in New Zealand time.  The guy said we should not see any sharks.  I was all good after he said that until he said you need balance too and I don't have a lot of that.  After that we drove around for a bit and headed back to Haurata.  I was sooo happy to get back to Haurata because it is like home now.  I wish we could stay here the rest of the year.  After we got back we just hung out.  Tomorrow we are going on the rock slide again.  I think I might get more bruises if I do what I plan to do.  Read tomorrows blog to find out what that is.  Oh by the way my sister just showed me she did not have on pants.