A Fairly Fabulous Day

We had a few days where we could go on a quick holiday, so we decided to head down to Cornwall.  We had never been, so decided to make the trek.  It took a good 6 hours to drive there.  We made a few stops along the way to break up the drive.  Porter hadn't been to Avebury Henge, it's the largest henge with a kilometer diameter.  Also, you can touch the stones!!!  Porter loved it. Porter boosted me up to take this photo. After a long drive, lots of traffic around Bristol, several rest stops and 2 bags of peanut M&M's later we made it to Newquay.  We stayed at Dewolf Guest House .  It was a cute little B&B ran by a couple who own Siberian Huskies.  They were very sweet and the location was good. The first stop was St. Michaels Mount.  It's a town with a castle on this little island by Penzance (yes, like in Pirates of Penzance) that is only accessible at low tide via causeway.  We looked at the tidal sch...

One of the highlights of the trip for us was our trip to the Waitomo Glow Worm Caves.  We had arranged to go Black Water Rafting in the morning.  But first we had to get checked into our hotel.  This was probably the nicest hotel we stayed at, however, upon arrival the receptionist let us know that it was one of the most haunted hotels in New Zealand ....great.  Just great, now wonder it was such a good deal.  I of course had images of blood dripping down the walls in the middle of the night, creatures lurking beneath my bed, and decapitated ghosts in the bath tub.  Yep, that's where my mind goes.   This was a picture on the wall that was depicting people in the caves, but it looked rather ominous. I found the fire!  I'm super good at that.  If there is a nice hot fire any around and you don't know where I am, odds are I'm snuggled up right next to it. The next morning we got up at the crack of dawn (no ghosts during the ...