We have arrived!

Kia Ora! Well we made it to New Zealand safe and sound, with only one flight almost missed in Vancouver. All good now though! Well, Air New Zealand is the tits! Yes, our flight on Air NZ was over 12.5 hours long, but this airline is absolutely awesome. Not only is their safety video at the beginning of the flight feature Richard Simmons and is hilarious, but I didn't want to stab my eyes out with the nearest sharp pointy object like on an Air Canada flight!  

We left around 6:45 pm from San Francisco and we were greeted by some extremely friendly and might I say good looking flight attendants.... Ha. Our plane has 300 people on it, so they had their hands full. Supper was actually delicious, unlike most other garbage you get on other airlines  - and to top it off - free wine with supper. So far my impression of New Zealand has been mainly made by the airline... And let's just say, I have a feeling that this relationship got off to a great start! 

We arrived in Auckland around 4:30 am local time - which by the way is 19 hours ahead of SK time. We spent around 22 hours traveling here and it feels good to on solid ground now.

Auckland is absolutely gorgeous, reminds me a lot of BC- except with very very different plants and trees. We got to our hostel BaseX Auckland at 7 am, safe and sound! We spent a lot of the day today touring Queens St and the harbor area. We had to wait a few hours to check into our room at Base X, so we did a lot of walking around. We ate Queen's Ferry Hotel for lunch which is the "oldest pub in Auckland" (as according to their sign). For supper we at at Tony's Steak and Seafood and I enjoyed my first ever quality New Zealand fillet, rare of course! It wasn't no grade AAA Canadian beef, but it was a pretty good alternative! Anyways folks, I have adventuring and what not to attend to. And I also need to sleep for a solid 12 hours to get myself back into normal condition - And it's been a solid 40 hours since I've had a good sleep... So see ya later!  K-Mac