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The journey begins...
So, here I am! Finally in New Zealand after 24+ of travelling! It was long; two 11hr flights, only broken up by a two hour stopover in Hong Kong, where I lost all my water to security! Sob. It was fairly uneventful really as flights go, quite a lot of turbulence, but that just made it all the more interesting! :) I kept falling asleep to the films I was watching on the plane. I fell asleep 15 mins into The Princess and the Frog, and woke up for the very last number... Disney films- good to go to sleep to it appears. AND I watched my first ever episode of Jonas Brothers hilarity.
Finally arrived at customs this morning at about half 9, and I've FINALLY got a stamp in my passport! Huzzah! Business managed, I've acheived my life goal now. Also got though biohazards or whatever it was thanks to Mom's excellent shoe cleaning skills! Bravo Mom, bravo!
So then after all my bags had been xrayed, and I was deemed okay to enter the country, I went through to arrivals to meet Sarah!! :D It's awesome to see her again, it's like we've not been apart! She has an awesome yellow car called Janet. It's truely excellent. The weather when I arrived seemed to change every 5 minutes, from hot to cold, showery to sunny as we drove through from south Auckland to northern Auckland. It seems like a really nice city, so I'm looking forward to exploring it more over the next few days/weeks. Today I went for a walk on the beach, I may upload a picture of this later. It's RIDICULOUSLY windy today. My hair certainly took a turn for the wild.
Anyway, after the beach, deciding we were cold, we went to the bush. And it was lovely. THOUGH all of the 'lookouts' were just 'look at this tree's and 'oh! another tree' rather than anything signifiant.
AAaaaaaaand as I'm writing this I keep nodding off in a HILARIOUS nodding dog fashion, so I think it's time to stop there! I don't even want to count how many hours I've been awake so far today/yesterday! (Don't want to, and probably can't)
Much love, Becky xxx
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