Flight from Adelaide to Sydney was very uneventful apart from a very abrupt landing where the pilots slammed on the brakes as soon as we touched down hurling all of us forward. The bus transfer from the domestic Sydney terminal to the international was fantastic and amazingly useful. It was like having a back stage tour of the airport!! We are soo happy we stayed with quantas because of this bus trip because if we hadnt we would have had to pick up our bags, exit the domestic terminal wait and catch public transport to the international and then go though security. Dads had "such fun" with the customs security getting "randomly" picked for every security check. He got to go in the full body scanner and then got picked for explosives. Mum shouted morning tea for use all buying kate and I a hot chocolate (which was surprisingly good), Morgan a mocha, herself and dad a much needed coffee. We are now waiting in the depths of mordor at the bottom of the airport also known as gate 50 which Morgan says is the crummiest gate in the whole airport and probably the first one ever built.
The Sydney to New Zealand flight was fairly uneventful and we got through with almost no trouble. The sniffer dog decided Morgan's day pack wasn't good and he got questioned but it was just because he had had very old apples in it the day before. Morgan was designated bag trolly pusher and the bags only "unloaded themselves" once. Mum and dad both bought a New Zealand SIM card for their phones but other than that we didn't do much in the actual terminal. Missed the first shuttle bus to the hire car building because he only had two seats left and their is 5 of us. Once we finally made it to the hire car place it took us half an hour to actually hire the car and were finally on the road at around 4:00. While at the hire car place we were met with a pleasant surprise of one grandad two pairs of aunts and uncles and two cousins all of which we had expected to be almost to rotorua by this time.
The car trip was fairly uneventful apart from a short stop off at Burger King for dinner! It the first fast food I've had in years!! Got to house on black point (the place we are staying) at about 10:00pm and quickly sorted out who was sleeping where with lots of auguing and a little yelling between Kate and I. We were both a tad tired!!!
Ok so just to give you an idea of what this holiday is going to be. I am on a holiday in New Zealand with my family of five, three of my uncles, two of my aunts, two of my cousins and my grandad. It was organized by my grandad as a family holiday! We are staying at the house on black point in Rotorua which is a huge mansion with a veiw on the lake. Thanks for reading
Alastair :)
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