Another amazing day at Disney. The California park is home to some awesome rides which we took full advantage of! We spent a full day & Hazel successfully stalked more characters for her autograph book. She perfected a purposeful scuttle which accompanied by a loud excuse me and a flourish of her autograph book proved difficult to ignore!! Both kids got chip & dale hats - provoking much head patting and general oohing & ahhing!! It was wildly hot s...

Today has been a "game of two halves" 1st half - waking up at Helen & Bens in the beautiful NZ Welcome Bay area. After breakfast & farewells, the three of us loaded up & headed for Auckland. It was a pretty journey, but made very slow by interminable roadworks. We arrived at the terminal with time to spare though, and after handing back the hire car I thought we would breeze through check in. Sadly not. One of my bags (the one that has died on the ...