A Special First in Taupo

Our first day in Taupo was pretty special. The girls were so excited to see their Grandma and Grandad and gave beautiful, heart-warming, unprompted hugs. We spent a lovely morning at the delightfully quaint Lilliput Fun and Animal Park.

It was here that Grandma and Grandad enjoyed a rare treat to experience a first for both the girls – riding horse-back (strictly speaking it was donkey back for Charlotte!). One of the down-sides of living on the other side of the world with little’uns is that family get to miss out on so many ‘firsts’; but this was a special moment for the memory box.

Charlotte also found the courage to hand feed a deer and discovered that years of tender trepidation were ill-founded when all she experienced was a gentle tickle and a dirty hand!

Sophie was happier with Thomas and ‘Tractor Tom’ (and frequent requests for ‘baaboo’! – I’m hoping it was all down to the extremely hot weather and not an ongoing habit – as I’m not going to put up with too much more ‘boob’ grabbing down my shirt!).