Waiouru Road trip

There was method in the madness for a weekend away in Taupo.

For the 100th year celebrations of the ANZAC's, there was a call for knitted poppies. The National War Museum at Waiouru, wanted one to represent every New Zealander who had died in the first World War. The compaign was supposed to be over a four year period.

They had enough supplied before the start of the 100 year celebrations, to represent every New Zealander who has ever died in any form of oversea's war conflict.

As part of the knitting campaign, my Mum knitted close to 200 of the poppies. So off I went in hurrendous weather conditions to go and look at the poppies. They were great and very mind blowing. Not all of the poppies are up as yet.

While I was at the museum, I found an exhibition done by an artist, all done on metal. And this cross formed part of the exhibition, with lots of plastic poppies dangling from the wire. Very thought provoking.

Must have been the day for art, as in the afternoon, we went to see the mosaic garden and then the glass blowing factory in Taupo. Loved the glass blowing factory - i could have quite happily spend the whole day there.