The flight was brilliant - the boys ate at the airport (not a lot else to do), watched Camp Rock (again!) then slept, woke up for breakfast before landing. After a year of planning at last touched down in Auckland at about 5.30am, went through customs which is quite an amazing activity. The landing form asked about food, hiking, snorkelling, diving equipment - we weren't sure so declared our packet of biscuits and jelly beans (bought at LAX to get rid of dollars) the man thought that was quite funny - even funnier when we declared the snorkel sets we'd bought for the boys as Christmas presents - but big ears Michael heard us whispering!!! then inspected the soles of our trainers to make sure we weren't bringing any dirt in with us........! Awful wait for
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