I'm Down Under! We left Denver at 4:30PM on Friday and- after about 17 hours of flying- arrived here in beautiful Christchurch, New Zealand at 5:00AM on Sunday morning. Yeah, do the math. As grueling as travel can be, Quantas Airlines is pretty great and the 900 or so of us on board the 747 only tasted our stomach contents once or twice as we hit some awful turbulence around the equator and the plane took a nasty elevation drop that even made the flight attendants cringe. Anyway, we hit the ground running on Sunday and after checking into our hotels we soaked up the beautiful sunshine around town. Christchurch is located on the South Island's east coast with beautiful, glacial-capped mountains looming to the west and the beach just to the east. I'm staying at
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