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Friday 22 January 2010
Highlights: Harness Racing at Addington
Around 8.45 am Erin headed in Andrew and my room to try and wake up Andrew, now this is a very difficult task, some would say near impossible. After Erin yelled his name about 14 times and jumped on the bed she had some success.
Thursday 21 January 2010
Highlights: Erin’s delight in seeing us after so long away
We cleared Customs very quickly. New Zealand treats Australians as residents for Custom purposes so it almost felt like being at home. After clearing Customs we heard ‘Andrew, Andrew’ which was Erin shouting for joy seeing her older brother again after so long.
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Highlights: Spare seat on the long flight to New Zealand
The flight was mostly uneventful; we did end up with a seat free between us as I had planned. Even better we were just in front of the entry door meaning we would get off the plane very early.
Andrew started on the window seat but after a couple of hours said he was unwell and needed to go to the toilet on his return I gave him the aisle seat and settled down unusually in a window seat. I watched Will Ferrell’s “Your Welcome America” in which he plays George W Bush, which was fairly funny.
The flight was good in that by leaving after midnight you wanted to sleep. Also New Zealand was about 19 hours ahead which is really 5 hours behind plus one day, which means by sleeping on the plane you don’t really have any jetlag. We did 5 overnight bus/train trips during the South America tour plus 4 overnight plane trips during this trip. Keeping in mind that the last 5 days 3 were overnight transport and only 2 in a hotel I am glad this is the last overnight trip of this holiday.
Tuesday 19 January 2010
Highlights: Rodeo Drive Shopping
After a great night sleeping in a king bed with my own room I reluctantly got up as we had planned to pick up our new friend Karen for a day of shopping. I enjoyed the provided hotel breakfast but Andrew only found time for the free juice.
Monday 18 January 2010
Highlights: Universal Studios in the Rain, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Mann’s Chinese Theatre
The LAN flight turned out to be very good; they have a large selection of music which I enjoyed listening too. On arrival into LA we saw heavily rain and I was concerned about our planned trip to Universal Studios.
Nathan's Insights 