Duane fights back:

OK so Dean is tempering our unabashed positivism, our pollyannaism, our little miss sunshinism?

But really, look at this picture..... how bad can it be?

Lake Rotoiti is good! And for all of you who might think, well, that this whole trip looks a lot like VACATION, and not, in fact, like a real life with dirty dishes and dirty nappies (well, thank goodness we're past that) and, yes, gnats albeit very friendly New Zealand gnats that are all g'day and, how ya going?, I remind you that it IS in fact summer vacation here and school starts in exactly ONE WEEK. Let's here what the little bugger has to say in a week or two eh?