Thank goodness we chose to fly this long haul trip on a Business Class ticket. Having left NZ at 10pm local time, it was some 33 hours later before we finally checked into our hotel in Dublin. The beds on board the plane were really comfortable and we slept well on the Auckland/LA haul. What a rude awakening it was though going through the US entry to transit to the next part of the journey. The fingerprinting is very us informative and we had no idea what was required of us and the young lady behind the unsmiling face was certainly going to leave me to guess what was required. Once I realised, she unsmilingly used the minimum number of words to relay her further requests. As we moved on to the body X-ray machine, I
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