This weekend Megan and I headed off to explore the Coromandel Penninsula. It was amazing. We left around 5ish on Friday and stopped at a campground on the beach for the weekend. We used trusty old Gerdie (we named our van) to sleep in. Megan's host family lets us use the van to travel and camp in on the weekends. It was great! Saturday we hit Cathedral Cove which is amazing! It is so weird to see so many postcards and pictures of a place and then to actually go there! Then we went to Hot Water Beach. You just dig a hole in the sand and there is hot, really hot, water under it. It was like a mini hot tub right on the ocean. After that we went to a bone carving shop. We carved our own bone necklaces. Then we hit the town of Coromandel to camp in Gerdie again for the night. Today we shopped around Coromandel, checked out a cool waterfall, went to an amazing butterfly garden and headed back! It was a great weekend! Well, it's back to school tomorrow for the first full week of real classes. The kids are back in uniforms and the actual class work begins!