A Glowering We Go Making new memories upside down at the bottom of the world works well, until you attach expectations to events. If you expect something to be fun, festive and illuminating, you raise your odds of being disappointed. Await crap and you may be pleasantly surprised. For example, the Partner recently organized an excursion to one of New Zealand's famous glow worm caves. His former flat mate, who works for a tour company, was selling van trips combining caves and carols. For $140 (NZ), the kids, Pete and I could take a comfortable two-hour ride to Waitomo for holiday entertainment combined with those magical glowing worms. Despite the fact the kids and I could make the trip ourselves for about one-third the cost, I said okay. The special holiday event would be worth it. And I'd wanted to see the glow worm caves ever since we arrived at the North Island. Pete said, "It's one more thing you can tick off your list." Oh, ye of too much faith. ...
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