Out of Necessity - Perhaps

Out of Necessity - Perhaps

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Auckland, New Zealand...

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”

Good Morning World... Tues 29th, 8.50, Auckland sky patchy blue and grey and pretty jolly cold for this little soul, especially coming out of 30+ degrees in Singapore. A few small issues at check in... jeez that was SGD 185 thank you for overweight, but she was such a sweetie, her supervisor suggested I try a repack and take as much on board to reduce the check in luggage, so I was one of those you see at times in the airport, doing a suitcases open trying to re-distribute. I do feel I got off very lightly. Long flight due to a little chap who obviously did not like the idea of being constrained, but he did finally scream himself to sleep three hours in and stayed that way until an hour before landing. Hostesses were handing out ear plugs to those of us in the immediate vicinity, but heavens I felt so sorry for the parents.  Arriving in Auckland and first impressions were that not a lot seemed so different.  It sounds so strange being in amongst Kiwi voices again, and the queue through customs was remarkably painstaking, but good to see MAF and their beagles doing such good control at the border. Back on the ground and straight back into the social whirl that is catching up. In conversation with my sister this morning we decided that we were not going to do any numbers from last night. Today will be a day doing a few necessary bits n bobs and top of the list is to enquire from Air NZ what their luggage allowances are for me... feel it could be a good option to courier the Poppets case to Taihape rather than watch the check in girl loose her eyebrows into her hairline. Finding it a little surreal to be back in New Zealand.

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