I took Alister and Billy tramping with Dan and his girls over Queens Birthday weekend. We walked the Orongorong track.

It was a pretty easy walk which is supposed to take less than two hours, but it took us three. That is fair enough considering the age of the children.

Everyone had a pretty good time, but:

• Alister fell off the bunk in the hut and hurt his toe
• Billy fell into the river

Billy ended up cold, and Alister limped all the way home. I didn’t give him a lot of sympathy, so I felt quite guilty when the bruising came out after we got home. A quick trip to the doctor reassured us that it wasn’t broken, so we can count it as a sucessful trip.