Monday, February 6th

Today is the day that we live through twice!  We will actually get home after traveling day/night and still get home before we left Australia because of the International Dateline! 

We woke up at 6:30 am and put our luggage out at 7:30 am for the bell boys to pick them up and bring them downstairs.  After breakfast we meet Kelly (our bus driver) and head for the airport about 8:30 am.  It takes us 2 hours to check-in and get to our gate.  Sydney airport has so many stores inside that it looks like a mall.  By the time we take off it is 11:30 am.  We are flying back to Auckland, New Zealand to catch a flight to San Francisco.  It is a 3 hour flight and a 2 hour time difference.  Once we land in Auckland we have about a 2.5 hour layover.  Once again I try to get onto the Internet to check emails but no such luck.  I grabbed my iPad and logged onto the airport website, paid $9.95 for 45 minutes just long enough to pull up Amazon to download the 3^rd book of the Hunger Games (I’m dying to read) and the internet goes out.  Mike and I both try over and over and can’t get it to work.  I go to the airport help desk and they don’t have a clue.  So, I decide to take out my computer to try and my battery goes dead! 

My charger is in my checked in baggage!  Uggg!  So frustrating…..now I have a 12 hour flight with no book and no computer.  Now, for our lovely trip home….the guy next to me jerks when he is sleeping, the guy behind me can’t get comfortable even though nobody is sitting next to him so he is kneeing the back of my seat, the overhead running lights in our section won’t turn off and my reading light is malfunctioning and being turned on and off by the lady sitting two seats ahead of me every time she uses her TV remote!  Really?  I can’t stop coughing/clearing my throat from my cold and my ankles are swollen again.  I love traveling!  J  I can’t sleep with all of this going on so I watch 5 movies.  “Moneyball”, The Iron Lady”, “I Don’t Know How She Does It”, “In Time” and “The Ides of March”.  I can’t wait to get home and take a nap!