Our week to Tonga has finally arrived.  After much anticipation - and physio - we are all set and raring to go. Hamilton airport awaits us....... with absolutely nothing to do!  So much for an hours check in.  They are having major renovations done and everything is behind the builders walls.  Good start, but never mind.  Our plane is absolutely tiny, with the pilot waiting at the fold-out stairs to greet us - all 18 of us!!!!  At Auckland we...

Our week to Tonga has finally arrived.  After much anticipation - and physio - we are all set and raring to go. Hamilton airport awaits us....... with absolutely nothing to do!  So much for an hours check in.  They are having major renovations done and everything is behind the builders walls.  Good start, but never mind.  Our plane is absolutely tiny, with the pilot waiting at the fold-out stairs to greet us - all 18 of us!!!!  At Auckland we...