We got away on time at 9am Saturday with 31 boys on the bus and 6 adults.
We stopped at Timaru for half an hour and the boys bought lunch at McDonalds or KFC and had a bit of a run around.
We arrived in Dunedin at 2.30pm where our host families were waiting for the boys to take home for the night.
Toby went with a mate and Thomas with one of his to 2 different families. They were treated to 10 pin bowling and a late night watching the All Blacks beat Australia.
They all met back at the clubrooms at 9.30am Sunday and kickoff for the game was 10.30am.
While they didn't win their game the boys had an awesome time and played very well as a team which had 8 rep players missing as they were away playing in Blenheim for the weekend.
The Kaikorai rugby club put on lunch and drinks for us and the most amazing spring weather ever. It was a sunny 24 degrees without the horrible cold wind that we get in Christchurch from the East!
The coach from each team picked the player of the day from the opposing team and Kaikorai picked Thomas. He was presented with one of their club beanies and in exchange presented their Player of the day with one of ours.
We left the club at 1pm and stopped at the worlds steepest street - Baldwin Street. Those that wanted to went for a run up and back and in the heat was no mean feat.
We headed out of town at 1.30pm and after a couple of stops arrived back in Christchurch at 7pm.
It was an awesome experience for the boys and us adults even managed to have a bit of fun in a city full of uni students, watching the rugby in a fully packed bar and even managing to get the taxi driver to drive us up Baldwin street and back down again at 2am!
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