Saturday, January 27, 2007

Getting to New Zealand...

...was a tribulation! It involved:
-- LAX, the worst airport ever
-- a twelve hour flight made bearable only by watching 'The Departed'
-- NZ Customs seizing our bags
-- NZ Air trying to send my bags to Dunedin and not Queenstown with me... although I wouldn't have been able to correct this had NZ Customs NOT seized my bags
-- a fire alarm that emptied the airport 5 minutes prior to boarding

The nice part is that I get to drive on the left side of the road! The rental car is fun: everything is backwards. The wheel's on the right and the turn signals are on the right of the wheel, so every time I turn, I activate the windshield wipers. Also different here: the toilets flush clockwise and the windshield wiper spray shoots bird shit and not soap.

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