My kind of roses in Rotorua, Mac's Steakhouse

I think from now on I want B to bring me these kind of roses for Valetines. Roses of the bacon nature.

But we'll get back to that shortly. Lets talk about the drive from Waitomo to Rotorua.

A word to my fellow travelers. When you get a rental car with a GPS and you aren't driving a vehicle with 4 wheel drive.... please make sure that you change the GPS setting to easiest instead of fastest or shortest.

Because you might end up on a quaint little side street like this.



But your quaint little side street may turn into a dirt road.

And your dirt road may turn into a 4WD obstacle course. I didn't take any pictures because I was too busy holding my breathe and praying. But I will say that there were hole large enough to lose me in.

Have you been on the Indiana Jones ride? It was like that. Only we were in a Toyota Corolla hatchback with 4 inches of clearance under the car.



This is just from the dust being kicked up behind us.

We had to stop here because there was a loud scary noise coming from under our car. To be honest I'm surprised we didn't leave half of the engine on that dirt road.

The cow wants to know if we can stop all the racket.



When we finally got to Rotorua we found this piece of heaven. Its called Eat Streat and we could've dined there forever.



We ended up at Mac's Steak House. Here is the Scallop Appetizer with corn fritters and a coconut curry cream sauce.



All of the scallops here have this orange part. What is that? It has the same texture as the scallop. The scallops were sweet and tender.



Back to my bacon roses. Here we have the filet mignon with a garlic marinated portabello and a corn meal crust. Did I mention the light layer of melted blue cheese? Or the creamy potatoes?

Totally delicious.



B had the heart attack on a plate. What we have here is filet with fries with a fried egg with caramelized onions and creamed mushrooms.

If you can get past the artery clogging you really enjoy this dish. I love being on vacation.



We were ravenous after the black water rafting. Disclaimer: I have no make-up on and I've been crawling thru caves so please don't look at my face.

I told you not to look.

Did you just scroll back up?



My healthy salad had mayo on it. Straight mayo. I realize that most creamy dressings are mayo but I've never had unseasoned mayo on a salad.



This is a fancy way of serving ice cream.



The next morning B headed out for a bike ride with Planet Bike. Rotorua is known for the amazing mountain bike trails and he just couldn't miss out on the opportunity to ride them.



During his ride I napped in the sun. I figure he was getting enough exercise for both of us.

After his ride the man on the right fixed our car by zip-tying the panel and plastic wheel well



New Zealand's own Lemon and Paeroa (L & P). Paeroa is the town the water comes from and the soda tastes just like Bubble Up!



I'd been seeing people walking around with these papers everywhere.

I didn't realize they were packages of fried goodness.



NZ's version of fast food is fish and chips wrapped up to go. B ordered that plus scallops, mussels and sausages.

The man has a bottomless pit for a stomach.



Back on the lake I took in the gorgeous day.

It was calm and relaxing.

I'm trying to send you some New Zealand warmth.

Whats the temperature by you right now?