It worked!!!

It’s 3.18 am, and very shortly I’ll be heading to the airport. Why oh why did I think a 6 am flight (with 4 am check in) was a good idea??? See you after the convention!

Saw Mum & stepfather briefly on Thursday – they were on their way up to the top of the North Island to SF’s brother’s birthday party, so left the car here rather than at the airport (we’re so close to the airport that it’s generally cheaper to get a taxi than to pay the airport…

You know that saying “Red sky at night…”? Well, it’s not true. The night before we left for Wellington there was the most glorious sunset, yet the next morning dawned grey and drizzly. The Outlaws had returned the campervan when they got back from the West Coast, so we were taking the train and ferry…

Yep, it’s my tickets. YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 And no, your eyes aren’t deceiving you, it’s a proper old-fashioned printed book of tickets, not an e-ticket printout. Apparently my demented itinerary is so complex that the airline wouldn’t issue an e-ticket for it, and insisted on the travel agent using the old kind. Which she did, even…

Well, we’ve arrived safely, and have reasonable internet access (although this computer is possibly the slowest I’ve ever encountered, and seems to like crashing at regular intervals). I wrote up a huge screed about the rest of our day in Perth while sitting in the airport yesterday, so I’ll see if I can upload that…