Everyone thought we were crazy flying to Queensland then Victoria and flying back to Queensland but the point was we wanted to get the cold parts out of the way first and have a warm holiday at the end of our trip and the warmest place we could get to at this time was Cairns. We boarded the flight after a huge rush. We stopped off to say goodbye to Ranna and filled up on cheap sushi at her place and ended up catching the wrong train to the airport. I seemed to ...

As I boarded the Air New Zealand flight from Narita things automatically felt different: The lack of bowing, blond haired people, English newspapers and greetings in English. The pilot came on and announced that we have the New Zealand trampoline team on board, who had won gold medals here in Japan and gave them a big congratulation over the intercom. But the icing on the cake came when he announced it was one of the airhostess' birthdays and if we could all wi...