Red Hot Lavas "Save The Children"

On February the 25th, the Rotorua branch of "Save the Children" held their annual fundraising garden party to which we were invited.

The event was held at the home of Jo La Grouw at Kawaha Point Rd and 5 Pukehina Potaes, along with 8 Red Hot Lava gals attended. Some of the Rotorua hatters were wearing 'other hats' that day, but we all soon settled in under a large shady tree right in front of the entertainment area.

A lovely spread of food was devoured, along with teas and coffee...with the novelty of the day being a new favourite...whipped cream banana icecreams. Yummy!!!
There were lots of entertainers, demonstrations and stalls to check out and of course there were lots of people 'checking' us out too!

It was a lovely fun day out and I'm sure a good boost to a very worthy cause.
Report courtesy of Lady Dutchie.

Red Hot Lavas February Outing

Our February meeting was at the Tarawera landing and on arrival at the lake, the first adventure on the agenda was to checkout the fish trap on the Te Wairoa stream. Fortunately, dear Lady Troutbeck has ties with the Fish and Game Society, so was able to give us quite a few interesting facts on trout breeding.



Next we found ourselves a nice grassy area on the lakes edge to set up our table and chairs. The trees received appropriate decorations in the form of red balloons and we were ready for action.

A few of the ladies removed their red hats and plunged into the cool water for a refreshing swim. Our Queen even daring to swim out to the 200m buoy and back! (Maybe the frog in her is closer to the surface than we thought!)














The swim was followed by a shared picnic, along with a few bubbles. Lady Logo had arranged some games which had us all in fits of laughter, with the Crafty Countess being the eventual winner of the day.
After relaxing in the sun for a while longer, we all agreed it had been another wonderful day out.

Thank you email female for supplying this report.













Those in attendance :
Patricia Buffery - Queen Grenouille
Carol Gillice - Lady Stitchberry
Francesca Hawkes-Buchanan - Lady Logo
Pat Price - Baroness de Brassiere
Maria Quigg - Lady Dutchie
Val Reid - Lady Rowena Ragwort
Barbara Sims - Lady Troutbeck
Heather Wilson - Crafty Countess
Norine Willers - yet to be named