Waiheke and Hobbiton Update

We arrived in beautiful New Zealand at stupid o'clock this morning and roused our tired and sleepy butts up out of bed and headed out to Waiheke Island.  Oh my.  It is stunning.  Tomorrow we are off to Hobbiton - where the Hobbit was filmed so there will be LOADS of pics - as well as the photos and details of our final day in Australia that is waiting to be published.

The internet is a bit of a pain again, but I will get that sorted tomorrow evening and get up to date!

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad . . .

Flights, that is!  Boy it is a long way from Vancouver to Auckland, New Zealand - especially when the flight is pretty much all in darkness.  Managed to watch the new Star Trek film, Monsters University and the Interns.  Sharon and Paul took magic tablets and slept most of the way (ask no questions, tell no lies!) and my two glasses of Merlot helped :)

Not seen any scenery yet - it is currently 0520hrs here in NZ (and raining) but the final flight to Australia should be in daylight.  We crossed the international dateline - and lost September 4th.  We pick up a day on our return, so I guess that it will be a bit of a groundhog day!  Also found out that Adelaide is the only (or one of the only) timezones that is a half hour out - not a full hour.  Will look that up later, have only got 30mins WiFi here . . . .

And here is a quick pic of our chariot!