The long haul.

So I have made it to NZ.
After my flight was delayed several times when I was in LA. I made it on the airplane and was surprised with how few people were on the flight. After departing we were told we could move around and stretch out, shortly after the flight attendant asked me if I would change seats because the man across the seats from me needed to stretch out because of his back problems. I was asked very nicely and then told that I could have a bottle of wine, since I don't drink wine I simply said could you make that a bottle of Bourbon and we will be straight. Shortly there after I had my bottle of Jim and I was set. Now for some shut eye.
Or not, I don't know if I am the only one that has a problem with sleeping on planes or if this was just a particularly bumpy plane ride. But I made it to Auckland shortly after 8am where customs and immigration went just fine and now I am standing at the airport in Auckland with over 100lbs of ski gear and clothes and no where to go.

Getting a bus and hotel was not a problem either, just go to the counter and ask for your bus trip and hotel along with a bus ride to Ohakune (where I am now). And shortly after its all set and all you need to do is go outside and hop on a bus with all of this shit that you have and go in to town. After sitting down with all of my things I noticed I was the only one on the bus. The driver said "hey come up here so we can talk" so drowsy from the plane ride I walked to the front of the bus and stood in the isle while he drove me to my hotel that he said "has very small rooms" and boy did it (Pictures to come).

After getting settled in my tiny room with all of my stuff from the flight, it was only 11 am and I was hungry, well it turns out in Auckland many of the people are Asian and so are most of the places to eat. And having a non adventurous apatite I decided to stick with fast fried foods and at at the closes Burger King. It was ok and seemingly similar. But the town is beautiful I have a few pictures even though it was a cloudy and rainy day in the city. Still needing time to kill, I got a few ski mags and sat down to read when I saw that Hangover 2 was playing in town, now one would think a movie theater is a movie theater but this is not so, this was one of the largest ones I had been in and it seemed to have assigned seats in the theater but I disregarded that and sat down to my movie hoping I was not sitting in someone seat. The movie was very funny and popcorn is still the same no matter where you go.
The bus ride to Ohakune was nice and long, only about 6 or so hours including stops so was not a bad trip, one strange thing did happen when we made our first stop the Police did board the bus and take some younger girl off of the bus and all of her bags. It was very strange but other than that it was a fine trip.

I am now settled in my new home for the next few months down in Ohakune and its a very nice small town with a good ski resort feel to it and hopefully I will be able to find a job some time soon so that I can keep myself busy.

Alex