Mania Close Down!

On the Friday we travelled down with the trailer to Mania, Taranaki about 4 hours away. We were expecting to have a big clean up with the missionaries but there were only 4 there. We were not looking forward to spending 4-5 hrs cleaning and still probably not have it all done. . The owner popped in so we had a clear up with him and then he said he would finish it off. So we departed a little earlier than expected.

Instead of staying in New Plymouth as planned we carried on driving homeward. After an hour or so we were getting quite tired so started looking for a place to stay. We found this older looking motel by the side of the road and they had vacancies. So booked in for the night but they didn’t have any phone signal which I said didn’t really matter. After taking one look at the room, the dirty floor the bumpy bed I decided that having a phone signal was essential. So out we booked ourselves. Poor guy he was very polite and said that was no problem. Probably because people say that all the time. We thought that maybe we would be travelling all the way home but as we were going through Pio Pio they had a motel there and very nice it was too. They had a nice restaurant next to it so after eating there we had a short walk around the block. My highlight of the walk was the cows in the field! They were playing together and I thought it was fun to watch. Elder Saunders was not so amused as I was.