Cheers!

Ah, we made it. Exhausted, but excited. The wedding in Seattle was beautiful, with snow-capped mountains in the background and near perfect weather. Then we became the adopted children of Larry and Deb, which was nice. A trip to the Museum of Flight and I can now say I've been on a Concorde and an old Air Force One. So that's cool.

Then a mamoth trip from Seattle to San Francsico, followed by a 12.5 hour trip to Auckland. Whoa. But it wasn't too bad, since they had over 80 on-demand movies with each having their own screen. Nothing like Will Smith as a comic hero and Jim Carrey remaking "Liar, Liar" to turn the brain off. Best possible thing, really. Finally, we had a two hour flight to the South Island adn landed in Christchurch.

Such a beautiful country so far and we've really only seen it from teh sky and from a 6-hour drive in our rental down to Dunedin. That's our destination and we're done for teh night. Turning in at 7 p.m. Yes, I'm old.