After reading the riot act yesterday about taking too long in the ONE bathroom we are ALL sharing and upsetting the teenagers (actually the young adult was the only one to take it personally 🙄….), everyone worked hard this morning to get ready to depart quickly. The result was we were sitting outside the Cadbury Factory half an hour before it opened for business!! 😳😂

I had booked us into the 9am tour of Cadbury World, which came with extensive information, samples along the way, and a bag full of various products. As often as I told the kids to stop eating the chocolate in their bags, their tour guide kept encouraging them to indulge!! 😳😩 Every time I turned to check on them, Sam looked a little greener and Belle’s cheeks were full and her bag a little emptier. I was so concerned one of them was going to be car sick!  

At the end of the tour, we left Dunedin for Timaru. It was a long drive, but by 1pm we had pies from a local bakery and were enjoying a picnic in Timaru Botanic Gardens. After lunch we drove another two hours to Lake Tekapo and the Church of the Good Shepherd. It was very beautiful scenery, although I think we have said that at least once on every single day of this holiday! 

Ross was pretty tired and sick of driving by the time we left there. Our plan had been to get as close to Christchurch as we could, so at 5.45pm we reached Ashburton and called time. I negotiated an absolute bargain on a three bedroom apartment in a little motel, where the receptionist even offered to dry my washing for me! (Yes, I am washing again….). Being a Monday, there is not a lot open in town so we returned to Speight’s Ale House for dinner (salad and roast vegetables were highly sought after given our second breakfast at Cadbury World….). Sadly, there is only one full day left of our holiday 😕.