Sunday, January 30, 2011

We are here 1/31/11

It is 3:30 and we are tired but too excited to sleep. 3 hour plane ride but we lost 3 hours so our bodies tell us it is 12:30, still to late.  Boy the shower felt good.  Slow day for blogging, most interesting news to post was the middle eastern woman who got on the plane smelling like a goat.  She walked by us and the odor hung.  Took almost an hour to get the air to clear.  Then there was the Asian lady behind us who coughed and sneezed the whole trip almost non stop. No mask.  Looks like there is a risk we won't be able to come home due to quarantine.  Then we go through customs, there was the Saudi who could not say where he was going or why to the customs agent.  When asked where he was staying, he could not say, and when asked with who, he said my Saudi friend.  Where does he live? I don't know.  How long has he been here?  Three days.  You going any where else in New Zealand?  No. Why not it is a beautiful country?  I don't know.  Then what are you going to do for a month?  I don't know.  OK you can go through?????.  We get through customs, hail a cab.  The driver is middle eastern.  We pull away from the curb.  I ask, how is the weather going to be tomorrow?  He says....I just started a new cab a month ago..... Nan is watching a British sit com.  They just dropped the F bomb........I'm going to bed.

1 comment:

  1. So you arrived in New Zealand!!!........ aka: the new Middle East, smelling like goats and possibly infected by a deadly Asian virus. The custom agents didn't find your stink too suspicious and graciously welcomed you into the country only after clearing a confused middle eastern man who has spent three days in the twilight zone with his Saudi friend. The agents could have at least done a better job convincing him to do some sight seeing, considering his future career as one of New Zealand's very own weather ignorant cab drivers.... apparently he is not a fan of Lord of the Rings.
    Glad you guys made it. Hope you are having a great time : ) Sounds fun, so far : )
    PS: The sounds of an f-bomb in a a British accent helps me fall asleep too.

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