Goodbye Australia, Hello New Zealand

We left the flat in Wollstonecraft about 7:15am to get to the airport for 8am. That was the plan, but as it was a saturday we hadnt anticipated many of the trains being out of service. We had to wait for a bus and then wait about 20 mins for the next airport train. I think it was about 8:45 by the time we checked in. Cutting it fine as usual!! We managed to send a load of post cards and thank you letters and then we had to clear immigration. Easier said than done when you are travelling with tom. As soon as you stick tom under some sunlight and let him grow some facial hair, the security level rises and tom found himself having his bag swabed and sniffed and then then had his hands scaned for bomb and drg residue! I have not had any trouble at all going through security (appart from my belt setting off the metal detectors), so far tom has had it done plenty of times. Thankfully we got through, and tom was finally given that next stamp in his passport. It wasnt long before we were boarding the plane. As we had checked in late it meant Tom was on the seat behind mine. Both seats were poor. I was sat with the group of 10 under 7's with the need to be jumping over me and then seats every 2 mins. unlucky for tom he was seated on the isle with 2 oldies with weak bladders, so he was up and down every 5 mins letting them go to the loo!
The in flight entertainment was poor as well, and the Air New Zealand stewardess's were not up to the same standard we had become used to with Singapore Airlines. The flight thankfully was only 3 hours! We were in Queenstown by 3.30pm, and after 20 questions with the immigration officer we were finally allowed into New Zealand!!

Now we had to find somewhere to stay!