We're Here!

We're officially in Auckland! I'm updating today from the apartment in which we'll be staying for the rest of the week. Mike and Elaine have already been gracious hosts; Mike made us a delicious breakfast upon arrival and we've been spending the morning catching up, cleaning up and gearing up for a fun several days.

Though we made it just fine, we have no idea where our luggage is. No one seems to be able to tell us, either. It could be in Atlanta, San Francisco, LA, or anywhere else really. We're "roughing it" just fine, though. Our clothes are being washed right now, and we'll probably venture out to get another outfit just to have incase our little garment bag never makes it.

The flight was amazingly easy. I heart Air New Zealand, and wish that they would acquire Delta, so we'd have a similar level of service on domestic flights. We had leg room in our seats, and since the flight wasn't full, our seat mate sitting on the aisle got up and moved around after takeoff, so we had plenty of room to stretch out, and didn't have to worry about bothering anyone when we needed to get up to walk around. I would rank the food as "stellar," considering it was for an airline. For dinner last night, we had a tasty pasta dish with a whole wheat roll, salad, wine (at no extra cost! it really is the little things like this that make me happy) and some sort of lemony cake thing with berries. We also ate a cheese and cracker snack, and breakfast this morning was a delicious fruit plate (what I had) or omelette (what Dave had) with yogurt.

After dinner last night, I watched The Blind Side (there were 78 movies to choose from - again, all included - *ahem* another reason Delta sucks, charging $2 per movie), and then we both passed out. We slept about 7 hours, which amazed us both. When we woke up to the smell of breakfast heating up, we were almost scared to look at our flight map, worried we'd be at least 4 or 5 hours away. Imagine our elation when we saw there were only 2 hours left on our journey! Those 2 hours flew by quickly, and we were in Auckland before we knew it.

On the taxi ride over to the apartment, the driver went on and on about how much he loved our accents. Looks like we are in for a fun few days here in the AKL.