Opening Days

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SO this is kind of playing catch-up but here we go...

We landed in Auckland after a nice nights rest on the airplane. We got off the plane and talked to a very nice police woman who told us to go through custums. After not seeing our baggage on the carosel for a while we became concerned and brought this to the attention of a very jittery baggage agent, who informed us that we were not supposed to go through customs at this juncture. WHOOPS. I am imagining this happened because I was too involved in playing Bejeweled to pay attention to what the flight attendent said and Brian said he seconded guessed himself.

Brian: slightly embarrassed.
Melissa: unphased.

We finally made it to Christchurch with a big CANCEL on our first customs stamp and went to pick up the campervan. HITCH: van insurance. We made it through anyhow and drove up to Hanmer Springs where we had a nice soak and Brian had a near miss picking up an ear infection (the signs for not putting your head under watter would have been 20x larger in America). We spent a wonderful evening in holiday park listening to all the birds.

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