It's True

I am here. I am safe. I am dawg tired! I arrived in Auckland, after a restless 12 hour flight, at 5 am NZ time. This was also after I sat for almost 2 and a half hours in the Vancouver airport while our plane lined up to be de-iced. It was the only flight out of about 5 flights to LA that night that didn't get canceled. It's quite incredible that I didn't miss my connector. Makes me feel like this was something I was supposed to do.

I am in good spirits having met a guy from London this morning who ended up joining me for breakfast and may meet up with me later... if we chance to run into each other. I also have dinner plans with my dorm mates. Now I just gotta figure out the what to do for that whole working part of this holiday and I'll be set.

Though it is the middle of their spring, it is cloudy and not that exciting out right now.

This place is like Canada... body shop, mcdonalds, starbucks, and other places with different names but for services that mimic what we have, e.g. 7-11 = star mart.... only some things are weird. It took about 30 minutes of bus ride before I finally stopped feeling a queezy stomache clench whenever we turned around a bend on the left side of the road... like some strange instinct warning me that we are in danger of running into somebody, haha. They have sidewalks that cross diagonally in the intersections... which I have seen in tv, but not in real life. It's kind of cool to watch this massive flow of people spurt out into the road, then suddenly clear. I'd post a picture for you, but I forgot to bring my USB cable with me here.

I don't feel all that far away, especially as how I have access to free internet while I'm in Auckland. Wishing you guys all the best. I'm going on a free bus tour of Auckland tomorrow. And who knows what after that.