It's 9pm on November 6, so we have officially survived our first day! Our thanks go out to Sean for transporting us to Pearson, where we began our journey from. No issues on our flight from Toronto to LA--actually, there was lots of extra room on the flight, so made for a nice start to the journey.
We arrived in LA to find a bit of an issue--in order to access entrance to New Zealand, you must have proof of an ongoing flight. Well, we have a flight booked for December 15th to Brisbane, but I didn't have printed confirmation of this....argh!!! So we spent about an hour trying to navigate LAX, but finally were successful and allowed to get on our flight! AWESOME plane and entertainment options on our qantas flight--made the 13+ hour flight as bearable as possible. Both Steve and I managed to get some sleep, making for a more successful first day in Auckland.
Not a whole lot covered today, but we did manage to explore the harbour and the University of Auckland. Very hilly city, which made things a bit slow going on only a few hours of sleep, but tomorrow should be another great day of adventure after a good nights sleep.
Random trip fact thus far--since leaving Sean's house at noon on Friday November 4th, we have now had three mexican meals.....yes, we are aware we are in New Zealand, not mexico!!
More trip details and pics to follow in the next day or so. Miss you all--keep us updated through email or add us to skype. Talk soon!!
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