Flying, sleeping, eating, sleeping and eating some more

We had our flight at 6.10am in the morning and had booked our shuttlebus for 3.00am!! We tried to sleep back at the hotel for the few hours we had but it was so noisy. It was just impossible and were a bit grumpy sitting waiting for the shuttlebus. It didn’t help that the bus didn’t turn up and when we rang to see where it was, they said it had been ordered for 3pm that day ....... we had to wait another 15 minutes for it .... nightmare!!

Mam and Dad’s flight was 12ish so they didn’t have an early start. The shuttlebus was booked for 10ish and turned up on time luckily.

The flight from Auckland to Los Angeles was ok, we were so tired. We slept as much as we could and ate everything that was going and before long arrived at LA. We survived some awesome turbulence too ..... everything flew everywhere brilliant!! After a 12 hour flight we landed in LA. We got through Immigration with no bother and collected and re-checked in our bags on time. Stupid that we had to get off the plane and collect our bags, to then have to check our bags back in and board exactly the same plane we’d just got off !!! Even had the same seats !!

We were waiting to board the last of the flights to New York when we met up with Mam and Dad. Their flight was Auckland to LA, where as ours was Auckland to Sydney, then Sydney to LA. They said their flight was ok, managed to sleep some and watch some films.

We weren’t sitting near each other so managed to sleep for the whole 5 hours. Ben had to wake me up for dinner and we slept through the take off. Before we knew it we were descending to New York !!