RUNNING THE CLOCK

Somehow we have packed 44 hours into a 24 hour period because we left Tucson at 2PM Tuesday, traveled for 24 hours and arrived in Queenstown two hours ago and it was 10 AM Thursday!

Our Air New Zealand flight from Los Angeles to Auckland lasted almost 13 hours and was quite pleasant. We flew in something called Premier Economy which is appropriately combining Business Class food service with a seat somewhat better than economy. This class is positioned on the upper deck of the 747 adjacent to the Business Class. After a two hour layover in Auckland we flew on for a couple of hours to Queenstown with spectacular views of the south island New Zealand Alps.

The biggest surprise on the flight was seeing Peter Defaria, son of Carl and Polly on board! Peter is an actor and appeared on board in his cameo role in the Dark Knight which was featured on the flight over!

In my next post I will try to incorporate photos which promise to be spectacular. The flight down here definitely whet our appetite for that which follows.

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