Yesterday Michael had a day off work which meant a whole 6 hours together of free time without Bethany!!
Gone are the BC (before children) days when all we needed to worry about was maybe eating at some point in the day. Our day started with getting organised for school, washing, hoovering and doing general chores. After breakfast we donned our walking boots and headed to the car, onwards for a forest trek!!
Just over the hill of Wainuiomata you are greeted with the most stunning countryside and views. This then leads to the coast, but before the coast we are met by the bottom end of the Rimutaka Forest Park. The park is huge, covering 220 km's. This area has been developed superbly and at the visitor information you can select the type of walk you want to do - anything from two days to a half hour. We opted for the '5 mile walk' estimated to take 2 hours.
The pathway was excellent, it took us deep into the luscious forest, over the ridge line and back down the other side, despite the estimated 2 hours it only took us an hour and a half, and that was with me stopping every five minutes to get my breath back!
On one of the below photos you will see a giant spiderweb, it was hard to get a decent photo of it but my goodness whatever made that thing must have been huge, the web could have captured a cow! Remind me not to walk the forest in the dark!
So instead of heading home straight away we took Denver to the doggy exercise area, and then we sat and had a picnic lunch. A really lovely day out, a much needed mammy and daddy time, one which we will have to do again soon.
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