Horsin Around With Squid n Kiss

While in Tauranga, we are staying at the Sebel Trinity Wharf and it is built on a harbour over the ocean. It's gorgeous with a really nice view over the waters. We even get free breakfast here which is really handy and not too common for hotels to do without charging an arm and a leg. Our day started off with a late breakfast and then we hit the streets to do some souvenir searching. We found some fun stuff. I think all we have left to do is pick up some wine to bring home. We had to check the airport traveling rules first before we wasted our time and money. Before we knew it, it was 3pm and we were on our way to Mateku to go horseback riding along the ocean.

Luke has never been horseback riding (although he probably has when he was little at a fair of some sort). I've been on some of our neighbors horses and have also ridden on previous vacations but it had been awhile. My horse was Kiss and Luke's horse was Squid. We went out with a couple guides and road across some farmland and then went down to the ocean to ride oceanside. It was a ton of fun. Luke's horse got kicked by another horse because Squid thought he could lead the group of horses but he was too new of a horse to the group to be leading. Another horse let him know it, so he had to stay away from the aggressive horse the rest of the ride. I was really hoping we would be able to horseback ride while in NZ and I'm stoked we got it in.
Looks like we may hit the beach for a real little bit tomorrow and then we are off to Auckland which is where we will end up flying out of. It was over 80 degrees today-it's going to be a little bit of an adjustment for us coming home to all the snow in MN that we keep hearing about!!