Everyone Out

Get in quick for the very last spaces for our Winter holiday programmes.

⏰ Last chance!

Over the past few weeks I've confessed to:
🚲 exploding a bottle of Raro on my bike,
🌊 getting busted after sliding down slimy culverts,
🐑 and attempting to "rescue" (read: steal) a spring lamb.

I was expecting hundreds of you to jump in with your own childhood adventures... but it turns out only four brave souls have shared their questionable school holiday adventure..... or is it that you've all agreed to take your stories to the grave. 😆

Either way, we're giving you one more day!

Share one of your favourite (or most mischievous!) school holiday memories in the comments on any of the three posts, and you'll go in the draw to win a FREE day at one of our Winter Holiday Programmes. I will draw out a name at random tomorrow, Tuesday 30th June.

Come on... surely we can't have been the only ones whose brilliant childhood plans didn't always go to plan! 😂

Winter Holiday programme updates! One week to go!
Bookings have been coming in steadily, and we're excited to see so many days filling up!

🌿 Island Bay is now completely full, with every programme day booked. But add you child onto our waiting list as there is a chance you could stag a cancelation spot.

🌿 Belmont is also filling quickly:
Tuesday 7 July – Fully booked
Wednesday 8 July – Fully booked
Thursday 9 July – 4 spaces remaining

🌿 Paparangi still has spaces available:
Tuesday 14 July – only 2 spaces remaining
Wednesday 15 July – 8 spaces available

If you've been meaning to book, now's the time! We only have a limited number of programme days running this winter, and once they're full, that's it (apart from the odd cancelation).

We can't wait for another winter of muddy boots, campfires, adventures and smiling faces!
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🐑 School Holidays in the 90s – Things My Mum Probably Didn't Know About
PART 3
After the exploding Raro bottle and the slimy culvert incident, you'd think I might have learned something.

You'd be wrong.....

This adventure took place a few years later. I was out riding my bike on the outskirts of our small Otago town when I stopped beside a paddock full of spring lambs. I stood there watching them for a while, thinking how incredibly cute they were. Then I spotted a newborn lamb curled up near the fence without its mum. And a thought entered my head: "I want one."

So I reached through the fence and picked it up.

The problem, of course, was that I was still a few kilometres from home. After unsuccessfully trying to carry a lamb and push a bike at the same time, I came up with a solution that seemed perfectly sensible to my young brain. I put the lamb in my bike helmet and hung the helmet from my handlebars.

(If you read Part 1, you'll know I had previous experience hanging important things from handlebars. Apparently I hadn't learned my lesson.)

I made it about 100 metres down the road before the farmer spotted me while doing his rounds. "What are you doing with that lamb?" he asked. Without missing a beat, I replied: "Oh, it was outside the fence. I was rescuing it." A complete fabrication.

Needless to say, my plan to become the proud owner of a new lamb came to an abrupt end. And I don't think I've ever told Mum this story before...

So if you're reading this, Mum..... surprise! 😅

Now I can't be the only one...

What's the most ridiculous thing you did as a child that seemed like a brilliant idea at the time? Or when did a plan go spectacularly wrong?

Everyone who shares a story in the comments will go in the draw to win a free programme day this winter.