After we got settled into the hotel and rested a bit, we went out for dinner at a restaurant called Shakespeare's. We all had great meals. Meat pies, fish and chips, and a calamari salad. For dessert, we had a really great brownie with vanilla ice cream. But the best was the beer! YESSSS, you heard me the beer. Gary had a stout that he said put Guinness stout to shame and Sunni and I had a pale ale each that was delicious! Afterwards, we went for a long walk arou...

Well it looks like I haven't quite got this blog thing figured out. Did a long monologue and tried to add some pics but lost the monologue and the first set of pics so here goes again. We arrived at 5:30am while it was still dark so couldn't see the lush green landscape. Went through customs and baggage xraying and then caught a taxi to Auckland about 20km or so. Taxi cost? $95 compared to $22 last time I was here. Seems everything is going up in price, $16 for a...

We flew from Kelowna to Vancouver arriving at about 2:45. Jean and I met up with Liz, Jean's sister for 2 hours and then we went through security to the international flight centre. We began boarding our 777-200ER at about 7pm and left on time at 8:00pm. About an hour into the flight, we were served dinner. I had curried beef,potato and basmati rice while Jean had chicken mushroom penne. Not too bad. Then we settled down to Jean watching a chick flick and me watc...