We'll it is day 4 of our trip (2 days) travelling plus time change. Everything was pretty quiet last night, New Years Eve, a lot of places were closed but we did find our way down to the harbour and had a beer and some really yummy pizza. Did some more walking, starting to get busier by the harbour. Came back to our hotel, I was just going to have a really short nap, Tom came in and said let's go for a swim in the pool, it was a great idea because it felt way too good to lay down! That woke us up a bit, had a beer in our hotel, then went to our room at 7. I watched some tv played some games on the  but kept nodding off, finally succumbed to sleep at 8 o clock, no way to stay awake for the fire works. Happy New Year from Brisbane.

Waited at the Brisbane airport, lots of stores so lots to see and very good people watching! We got to fly on an air New Zealand plane painted with Hobbit material, I will attach a picture if I can figure it out. That flight was 3 hrs, so watched another movie, The Internship, Vince Vaughn and Like Wilson. I sat beside a fellow from Brisbane who gave us some pointers about Brisbane. Got a bus at the airport that took us to our hotel, Watermark Hotel Brisbane. Took about 1/2 hr from the airport. The weather is cloudy but warm. We got an upgrade on our room, now Tom is napping and I am doing the blog. It is now 12:20 in the afternoon. Will shower and go exploring. They said the fireworks might not be so great because of the low cloud cover.

Sorry if this blog is a bit mundane at times, but this will be my diary of the trip, so will mean more to me than you sometimes!

First day of travel....l

Well we made it to Auckland, and to tell you the truth the 14 hour flight was not bad. After settling in our seats with blankets, glasses, reading material, pillow, remote, shoes off, coat on coat off, finally decided on a movie, I watched "We are the Millers"and Tom watched "Elysium".That did help pass the time. One hour into the movie, supper was served, we had a choice of shrimp pasta or curry beef with rice, along with some Australia red wine! It was pretty good. At about 11 o'clock I took a couple of little white pills, one I had my ear plugs in, my eye mask and neck pillow I was ready to sleep, Tom was fidgeting around me but he finally settled down and I did fall asleep lightly, woke up and too another little white pills and the zonked until it was time for breakfast, 3:30 am.  That sort do revived us and arrived on time in Auckland . We are now waiting for our flight to Brisbane. Hello everyone!

First day of trip - travelling

We leave tomorrow, December 29th. The weather as we leave is -17 today, but is supposed to get better. It will be better for us!