The flight

Hi Amy and friends,

I've got heaps of photos to upload, so I'll have to do this in installments I think! It's been a very exciting few days.

I don't have any photos of the flight, as Renee had to leave the digital camera at home for Si, but it wasn't very exciting anyway. We got to the airport in plenty of time, and check in was very painless. Renee was hoping to get a free upgrade but no such luck. However, we did get a bank of 3 seats to ourselves so Renee could sleep. We watched a couple of movies, slept, and read and the 12 hours went by remarkably fast.

We had 3 hours in Korea, and the airport was quite nice, but everything was quite expensive. In Seoul airport (it's called Incheon), they accept US dollars, Euro, Korean Wan and Japanese Yen, but not pounds Stirling. Renee changed 20 pounds and got 35000 Korean Wan! She had a shower and wandered around the shops, and we bought some pumpkin taffy which sounds yucky but is very nice.

The 2nd flight, from Korea to New Zealand, was very crowded so much harder to sleep. It was also an older plane so didn't have individual movie screens. The meals were good though, and the flight attendants were lovely.

It was great to arrive in New Zealand and we got through customs really really fast. I met Renee's mum, Jay, and Patricia, who is a student from Switzerland. We got straight in the car and headed for Hamilton, which is about 1 1/2 hours south of Auckland...