Trip to Sydney was uneventful and apart from the noise and erratic speedup / slow down driving technique, not altogether unpleasant. The best part is being dropped right at the terminal which is right near the hotel, so that's good news as we are both pretty tired. Too tired to do anything but walk back over to the airport pig-pen and find something simple to eat before walking back to the hotel and crashing for the night.
5:30AM - yes, there is such a time and it's when we got up to go have breakfast and make it back to the check-in at the designated 2 hour ahead of departure time. Good news, I am officially not going to blow up as I have been scanned for explosive material. Bonus.
Anyhow after a longish 2 hour wait we made it onto the superjumbo for the two and something hour trip to Aukland. The plane ride was very nice, as they say in the movies. We were right up at the front and it's very quiet indeed.
"Someone" declared that we had biologics with s and of course we had to get scanned and checked and rechecked, but even then it was pretty much a walk through for customs and border security and immigration.
We then grabbed the Super Shuttle - direct to the city - only $42 for us, seemed a bargain. Except of course the one lunatic that decided that the best thing to do was get the bus driver to drop him off at some place nowhere near the city and so it took us damn near 1 1/2 hours to get the hotel. Fortunately it's rather nice, and the city isn't bad either. But then we are 1/2 a block from the quay and the ferries and we have our next two days planned around ferry rides already.
So that's it, let the adventure begin.
Cheers, Brian & Judy
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