We left home about 2:30pm on Sunday May 2nd and headed to the airport. Our plane took off right on time at 5pm. We flew to LAX airport and checked in for our flight to New Zealand. When we checked in at the Air New Zealand counter, we were told that the plane was not full so each couple would get a row of four seats. You know what that means?? Three seats for the girls and one seat for the boys. J We boarded the plane, settled in and Mary and I fell asleep. Hal and Andy slept some as well, if you can call that sleep!!!!
We landed in Auckland at about 5am and an hour and a half later we loaded a plane to Christchurch. We were feeling pretty good when we got off the plane. We picked up our rental car and found that we barely had enough room for all of our luggage. (Imagine that!! We tried really hard to pack lightly…..We know that Sara and Gareth will have a good laugh when they see our packed car. After all, they are traveling for a year with one back pack each. J We drove to our hotel , the Heritage Christchurch, and dropped off our luggage. We walked over to the botanical garden and looked at trees, plants, and flowers for a couple of hours. The Rose garden was amazing.
We returned to the hotel, checked in and took showers. Then we called Richy Platt, a friend of our friends from home, Deb and Joe. Richy picked us up and gave us a first class tour or Christchurch. He took us up into the hillside where we could look over the bays, and countryside. He took us to a New Zealand mall where the girls shopped and the guys stopped at the pub for a pint. We had a blast. Richy was a great host and guide!!!
Sharon took us to the Sheepskin factory where Mary bought some slippers. We then stopped off at Cookie Time for some cookies for the road. We said our goodbyes to Sharon and headed on down Hwy 1 to Oamaru and Dunedin.
We are still working on uploading photos. On the bus to Milford Sound we will work on the pictures to see if we can upload later.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment