Saturday, December 5, 2009

i've been cheated out of 1 vacation day...

... by the international date line.

I have arrived in Auckland, New Zealand. We touched down bright and early at 5:30am Sunday morning (that's 8:30am Saturday morning for all you friends). I managed to sleep about 5-6 hours on the flight, so transitioning to NZ time hasn't been a problem. After we easily navigated our way out of the airport and caught a taxi to our hotel we have spent all day exploring Auckland.

First stop was the harbor/water front area to check out all the sail boats. We walked over just in time to see a very (very!) large princess cruise liner carefully come to shore. Then we set off walking down a main street here in central Auckland where we found a small cafe to have breakfast. The rest of our day has been spent wandering the streets. We left our luggage at our hotel, but can't officially check in until closer to 2pm.

The rest of the evening will be spent trying to plan the rest of our trip. We know we'll be in Auckland all day tomorrow, but after that... we have no idea yet! Just the way we planned... :)

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