Long weekend in Patea

We had a great time at Pauls, here's what we did.....

We arrived on Saturday at about 3/4pm ish and Paul showed us round his big massive new farmhouse and then we had a little drive around the farm. His Dad Nick has recently sold a lot of the land which is how they built the super duper house. We had a little drive into Patea which isnt very big and there isnt much to do. We drove to Patea beach and then back to his house. We watched a bit of rugby and played a couple of games of pool and had a nice big roast for tea. Belts was supposed to come but the road from Palmerston North was closed due to a landslide because of the weather.
On Sunday we drove down to the farm's petrol pump to top up his car and got stuck in the mud, we were there for about 45 mins trying to push it out and bump it out with the quad bike but had to call Nick to tow us out with his ute. We had a drive to a dairy (corner shop) that sells good pies for lunch, and then on to New Plymouth which was pretty nice. The pic is of us at the Wind Wand. On the way back we stopped at a little museum about the first settlers into Taranaki (the region where Patea is) and out back was a guy's collection of tractors. Not being sure if they real, we jumped on to find out, while Robyn was busy making friends with the dummys. We were going to go out on a possum hunt Sunday night but the weather was rubbish so we just stayed in and chilled out really.
Monday morning we had a little drive round the farm on the quad and had a drive to another little local beach. After lunch we togged up and drove the truck out onto the farm and found some goats and did a bit of shooting. The goats were pretty big and reasonably nippy for such whoppers, so we had a little run after them. We swapped some rugby stuff when we got back, so ive got no Cas stuff anymore, but a few t-shirts and a jumper from the local rugby club which is good. The drive back took about 2 hours and the road was full of mud from all the slips because of the weather.