A Holiday In a Motorhome; A wonderful experience
‘A journey with family is a collection of memories that lasts forever.”
I and my family decided to go on holiday on a motorhome for a wonderful experience. We all were excited for this and finally the day came so in the early morning, I and my dad went to pick up the motorhome from McRent. Whilst returning back home to pick up my mother and brother, I sat in the front seat of a motorhome and it felt like riding a bus.
After packing food, clothes and basic needs/requirements, we started the journey and our destination for that day was Lake Pukaki. While on the motorhome we all had a chat, listened to music and learnt about interesting facts about highway rules like the max speed a motorhome could go is 90 kmh on a highway.
On the way we enjoyed the scenic view, adding those to our photo gallery and playing some games with my brother. We finally reached Lake Pukaki and were looking for freedom camping. The first difficult obstacle we had to overcome was finding a place to stay because most places didn't have parking for motorhomes and after doing some research in google, we found a place for motorhome parking and stayed there for the night.
The next day we woke up early in the morning, had breakfast and left to explore Mt. Cook. After we arrived there, we had a delicious lunch prepared by my mother and decided to do the hooker valley track which is a 3-4 hour walk but since my brother was three it took a little longer. My father and mother took turns sometimes to carry my little brother though exhausting it was a wonderful family moment. After reaching the end of the track we saw snow in the middle of the lake, ice was drifting around the shore and the view was mesmerizing.
After completing the track, it was around 6 or 7 so we decided to have dinner and leave for Wanaka early in the morning. After having a very tasty breakfast made by my father we left for Wanaka. Reaching there we did some fun activities including a maze and an optical illusion museum. The maze was amazing and to complete it we had to touch all four corners of the square maze which was quite difficult but also amazing.
Then, we went to the optical illusion museum, where the illusions were insane. My brother looked bigger than my dad, there were illusions of us standing on nothing even though there was a glass panel holding me up, etc. After a tiring day, we finally went to the close family friend's house and parked the motorhome in front of his house. The next morning we thanked him and left for Queenstown.
Queenstown is a beautiful city, known for attractions like the gondola ride to the luge that's even more beautiful at night and the famous “Ferg Burger”.
We decided to have lunch before doing any activities so my mum and dad had the Ferg Burger while me and my brother just ate KFC. After eating I was excited to ride the luge since it was kind of like racing. The Gondola was kind of shaky on the way up but I knew nothing would happen though.
After arriving at the top, there was a queue and we had to wait for like 20 minutes but we wouldn't have to wait after we paid. Me and my dad decided to race after getting used to the luges and I knew I was gonna leave him behind in my dust, and it did happen, he got demolished in the race.
After having all that fun, it was evening so we looked for a place we could stay for the night but we found out that it's illegal to freedom camp in queenstown so we headed back to Wanaka and had dinner there.
The next morning we decided to go to Lake Tekapo and found a place where we could stay. We checked out the church and the rocky shoreline around the lake plus dipping my feet in the pool, once we got out and went to the playground on the other side of the bridge. Me and my brother played while my parents just chilled before we found a place to camp, and in the morning we left for Christchurch.
It was really tiring after all the travelling and fun activities but simply being with my family and enjoying those moments made this trip to last forever in my memories.
