Maruia springs.

For mothers day me and mum decided to take a drive down to maruia springs. We got in the car and drove for about 2 ½ hours the last half thinking “it cant be much further than this!” It was spitting most of the way but was lovely driving through the hills with a slight mist. When we got there we checked into our “executive” not, rooms and then headed back to reception to collect our key for our private spa. How romantic. That was lovely but there was black stuff floating around in the water and it was really cloudy. Apparently the bacteria and the stuff that lives in the “natural” hot water springs. Ummmmmm not sure how much of that I believe, but it was lovely and relaxing and our little bath house had a lovely view out over the river and up into the hills. Didn’t quite work up enough courage to get our kit off in the men and women separate bath house as that’s going a little to far for me! No one has seen me in the bath in my birthday suit for quite a number of years, well almost no one.

The spa went for about 40 mins and I spent about 10 trying to work out how to turn off the jets that I had activated to HIGH. We then adorned our kimonos and headed back up to the main house for 30 mins of bliss. Well mine was there was a lot of chopping coming from mums side of the massage table. I loved mine, she covered me with hot towels. LOVELY…..

Then it was back to the room to get ready for dinner. Not that we needed to get ready really im sure we would have been accepted in our kimonos! Heehee oh such a snob. The dinner was lovely, fried tofu was so nice and tempura prawns. The dinner was in steamboat style with lots of veges, chicken, beef and salmon. Really enjoyed the meal. We tried to brave the cold and rain for a dip in the water but we decided to reserve that adventure for the next morning.
it was still raining in the morning but there had been snow overnight and the hills were all capped with lovely white snow. We plopped ourselves in the lovely hot spring water and relaxed looking around at the gorgeous view.

Loved my kimono so much that I had to buy one. So cool!