My Holiday

On the first Sunday of the holidays my family and I packed to go to Napier. The only reason we  went was because Mum was working. The hospital she was working for really needed some more doctors so they paid Mum $1000 a day and they paid for our motel.

During our time in Napier we decided to have some fun instead of wasting our time waiting for Mum to come home, so we went to the aquarium. As we were making our way there, a big white ball of foam zoomed past our car. As I searched for where it had come from, Toa shouted excitedly “look at that water fountain, it's filled with bubbles!!!” My eyes dashed to the direction that he was pointing in. Excitement spread throughout my body making my heart beat faster and faster. I had to say something “Dad, please! Please! Please! Can we go and play there!?” I begged. Dad sighed and parked the car. We all raced to get there first. There were so so many bubbles. It was awesome! But sadly we couldn't stay for long. Dad just wanted to get to the aquarium, so we got back on our way.

We finally arrived at the aquarium, all of a sudden I was excited again with butterflies in my tummy. Once we had paid we went straight in and Dad took some photos of us in a shark jaw. It's teeth were so big, and as sharp as a knife. After all the photos, we went up stairs. There were so many fish. There were clownfish, the fish that look like dory, there were  even hundreds of little turtles. Maybe even thousands! There were crocodiles too. As I kept on walking I took photos of just about everything, but a little fish tank caught my eye. I looked very closely but I just couldn't see anything. I looked again. Something moved. Hiding behind the seaweed there was a tiny little seahorse gliding gracefully in the water. Then I saw some more. And some more. I could see about ten little seahorses hiding among the seaweed. I took some photos and moved on. All of a sudden Toa came rushing up to me “Grace! Grace! Come and see the kiwis!” He said smiling. I followed him into the kiwi house. It's strange having a kiwi house in an aquarium I thought to myself. In the end we saw about five fluffy little kiwis wandering in the darkness. Then Toa rushed me to another place. I couldn't believe it. There were lots of little penguins!!! The rest of my time at the aquarium I played with the penguins. Sadly it had to end, but I went toned that night excited for the next adventure;the hot pools.

I woke up happy and ready for another day of excitement. Finally Dad announced “today, we are going to the hot pools” as I got my togs and towel together I wondered, what will it be like? I hope there is a hydro slide, or maybe just a normal slide. I couldn't wait to go. When we arrived I looked around. Where was the hydro slide? Was there any slide? All I could see was a hot pool. It was kind of a disappointment, but it was better than nothing… Until Tama started embarrassing us by shouting a random people, but other then that it was very relaxing.

Finally it was the weekends and Mum had a couple of days off work. Since mum was home and it was our last day at the motel (because we would soon be staying in Hastings with a friend) we decided to go to the park. It was really fun. There was a big obstacle course and it was a little bit hard because you couldn't touch the ground. It was very funny though because after I went across my Mum tried to. She failed. Of course there was always Tama to keep happy so we went with him to find somewhere he was happy to play. Mum was being funny, she got me to go on the see-saw with her. But it was fun. We did it while standing up but as soon as we tried it with our eyes closed it started to shake. Mum fell off.

On Sunday we left the motel to go and stay in Hastings with Mum’s friend Moira and all of her boys. During the day, while the Mums were at work, I was the only girl out of 13 boys! Imagine that.

Over all I had a really good time and I can't wait to go again.

Grace Teata