Well we have arrived in the land of Di’s birth. Didn’t think we were going to make it because of the weather on the day of departure. It was raining pretty heavily and visibility was down to a few metre’s so they diverted our incoming plane to Brisbane where it had to offload passengers, fuel up and return to the Gold Coast. We were delayed about 2 and a half hours. Didn’t really matter I guess because we originally had a 6 and a half hour wait in Auckland. That’s right our plane was originally supposed to arrive at 11:35pm and our flight to Nelson on the south island didn’t leave until 6:05am the following day. As it was we didn’t get in to Auckland until 2:30am.

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