In the middle of the night my brain decided it was time to get up. I ended up falling back to sleep 4 hours later at 4am. I hope I get a full nights rest soon. I finally got up around 6am and made myself a coffee. Today Dad, Rowan and I are heading to Whangaparāoa to have lunch with Nana & G/Pa. When we arrive there is another car in the driveway. My cousin Karl is here from Perth. What a nice surprise. We end up having a lovely lunch a good catch up. We leave around 1pm towards the airport.

We thank Dad and say our goodbyes. We are nice and early for our flight, we check in and go straight through to security. The area is quite busy, Rowan and I read our books as we move slowly up the line. I get through fine but I get selected for an explosives swipe, of course I pass that one too. We end up going for a good 20min walk while we wait for our gate to be announced. Then we find some food and massage chairs. I am surprised at how good these bulky chairs feel. Finally we get to board, I had picked the back of the plane and a window seat for Rowan. Once we are on I realise we will have no neighbours, we have 3 rows in front of us empty and one row behind us empty. The whole 5 rows on the left are empty too. Wow we get heaps of space, I move over to the aisle seat. Ooo Mr Organ is on the list of movies, we wanted to watch this Farrier doco when we left for Australia last time by the time we came back it was no longer playing. We start our movies at the same time. There is an awesome hostess who gets us 3 red wines and 2 glasses to try out. Donna comes back in a few minutes asks what our favourites were and brings us back two more bottles. It doesn’t stop there, we get heaps of Kit Kats (12), business class snacks. When the meals are about to be served of course we will be the last. Lucky for us Donna gives us our meal first before heading to the front. Thanks, Donna! I have the chicken cous cous and Rowan has the roast beef. Rowan gets offered more meals, by the time we reach Sydney we are very full. I can’t finish my chicken meal but I do have room for a Kit Kat.

The landing is rather bumpy, I am glad when we touch down. It takes a few minutes for our bags to come through, customs is really fast and we are out in no time. Joanne has come to pick us up, turns out she hasn’t told Bette we are coming. When we walk in the door she gets a mighty surprise. Bette was dreading being on her own for 3 weeks and is very glad we are here. We stay up chatting to 1am (3am kiwi). I will update as we go, but I won’t be blogging daily unless, we go away somewhere interesting.