It didn’t take us hours to get away for our weekend rally on Friday night. It was just a matter of hooking up the caravan and driving 4km down the road to a local school. We were meeting up with the Wellington Area of the Motor Home Association for the weekend to take part in the Spring Festival Rally. Thirty five motor homes (with a sprinkling of caravans) were parked up in the school grounds for the weekend.
We all gathered in the hall for fun and games on Saturday evening, and were put into teams for a quiz competition. The brains went into overdrive as we tried to remember which Prime Minister was in power during what particular years, and try to work out which town was the first in New Zealand to get electric light. The answer to that one was Reefton. As I said to my team, the questions are easy if you know the answers! We did very well on the TV questions, 10 out of 10 for that round. Robin’s team came in at 4th overall, while my team was 5th.
The highlight of the evening was when each team had to make a bikini out of newspaper for one of the men to model. The men could hardly wait to be fitted into their bikinis so that they could “strut their stuff”. It was all good fun and the laughter was ringing loudly around the hall. The evening concluded with a “bring a plate” shared supper.
One of our camping neighbours was rather perplexed during the weekend. He came up to Robin and wanted to know about our TV reception. “How come”, he asked, “your TV dish is pointing that way while all the others are facing the other way?” The answer was quite simple. It wasn’t hooked up!
We met up again in the hall on Sunday morning for morning tea and the raffle draws. We did particularly well with raffles over the weekend, starting off with winning a meat pack on Saturday night. Then on Sunday Robin won a dozen beer, and I won a box of chocolates. Beer, chocolates and meat, that should make for a balanced meal, don’t you think?
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