Airplanes in the night sky

...are like shooting stars that never, ever end.

Mark and I have arrived in Auckland. After a delay departing from Toronto because customs decided to tear the plane up and then a quick layover in LAX that included Burger King and throwing up some gang signs. we boarded the Air NZ flight for Auckland. I was exhausted, had already watched the film classics "The A-Team" and "The Karate Kid" on the way to LA so I felt sleep would be easy. I stayed up a couple hours, watched another movie, at the dinner they served and then fell asleep. When I woke up I figured we might have a couple hours left and I had conquered the flight. I checked the flight watch option and we still had 7 hours left to go. Eff.

Once we arrived we were treated to the biothreat customs screening that included very cute beagles sniffing my bags, so it wasn't too bad. A quick bus ride into Auckland and we were checked into our hostel. We've walked around a bit this morning, saw the harbour and some of downtown and booked the next leg of our journey. We leave at 8 tomorrow morning towards the first great walk.

So far so good, there was an earthquake in Christchurch but I'm not too shook up over it. Keep sending messages and emails, we're in the southern hemisphere and there should hopefully be some better stories coming soon. Cheers!