Wow! After all that planning... we're finally in NEw Zealand!!! (and what a trip it was) We left LAX on Tuesday the 22nd at around 10 pm. The plane was huge, and the movies were terrible, but the food wasn't bad :-) When we got to Aukland on Thursday, we were exhausted, but sooooooo stoked to be in NZ. Flying over the country was amazing. Everything is so green here! Customes wasn't bad... Benji didn't have a copy of his visa prior to getting here, but it turned out to be no problem at all. Our only hold up was the NZ customs agant having to take our tent into "the lab" but we were seed and pest free, and on our way to the hostel. We've been staying at this sweet little hostle called the
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