Before I left I had a conversation with my mum which went something like this
Me- 'Mum stop fussing! its not as if I'm going to the other side of the world!'
Mum' Er , yes you are'
Me- 'Oh'
But it doesn't feel like the other side of the world , more like some bizarre parallel universe ; We've already found Barrow and Mayfair and its raining, alot. However 'walls' ice cream has morphed into 'streets' and everyone is far more friendly.
So here we are and it only took us 24 hours , four flights, 5 films, of hours of sleep and an incident with a cup of coffee ( and a pudding and a chicken sandwich (oh dear Em)) to get here. Oh and several hours in customs. If I new there was that much difference between Cumbrian mud and kiwi Mud I might have actually bothered to clean my walking boots but as it is I had to spend ages queuing to have my bag searched as a 'Bio-hazard' . It's insane they had sniffer dogs searching out fruit in peoples bags- do Newzealanders get high of vitamin c or something??
Me and Em have the jet lag equivalent of a very bad hangover. We had to force our selves to stay a wake with a large pizza and beer ( its was tough that was :P) but we failed and were in bed by 9 pm ( that's 8 am English time). Unfortunately this meant we woke up at 6 am leaving us with a very lonnng wet day ahead of us! To quote Em 'If this place floods i'm going straight home ' . I think its stopped now and anyway we've just stuffed our selves with the most HUMUNGUS pancakes ice cream and syrup that was served with lettuce and tomato?? It is most definitely the other (crazy) side of the world.
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So glad you made it there safe and sound :D
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Better be careful about dissing NZ customs paranoia out loud H! They have whole evenings of TV devoted to cheering on as visitors get hunted down and banged up for trying to import bits of foreign vegetable matter secreted about their persons. Considering that their whole economy is dependent on not catching foot n mouth or mad cow or other wobbly animal syndrome I guess its not surprising.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're there safely. Give our love to the place and keep on blogging. We can print out your posts and stick them onto postcards to show to your Grans!
xxxR
Yes after sandy and chris actually explained that it was fair enough but they could do with sticking that on the posters!! love to everyone!xxx
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