The long awaited arrival of Pearson...

Who, by the way, has a first name (Stephen for those who don't know). Lol.

I arrived at Auckland at lunchtime having stopped at Bangkok and Sydney. I was privileged to find out that they had bought me a cup and that Nick had packed up and moved into Ben's room for the time being.

My laptop appears to be a big hit, seeing as they have been deprived from access to facebook and MSN for nearly a month now, except for when they pay at the internet cafe.

Tom has eaten the apartment dry so we are going out for a meal tonight and I am going to try to adjust to the time difference over the weekend while they are working.

The weather is really good at the moment so we're planning to go to the beach for the day on Sunday to make the most of it.