Air Update

Days 1-3

Greetings from atop the International Dateline! I would add a date to this entry, but I’m really not sure what day it is.. According to the inflight GPS, I’m 11277 meters above the pacific ocean, and seemingly directly above the International dateline, and I certainly feel on top of the world; albeit oblivious to the current time and date. I’m moving at 903km/h, yet feeling like this plane could not be going any slower. The excitement amongst us is extremely evident, and makes time stand still! The reality of the fact that we’re literally moving across the world has finally set in, and we are all so antsy to arrive! We’ve been on the flight for over 11 hours, and flown over 10,000km’s, yet it feels like we’ve been on this plane for days. Some of the highlights today have been:

- Being delayed in the Vancouver airport for an hour and a half, and having to sprint as fast as we could to the complete opposite side of the San Francisco, only to barely make our connecting flight..

- Getting on our 13 hour flight, only to realize that a group of Australian girls were sitting beside us, behind us, and really all around us..

- Having amazing turbulence, and pretending we were on a rollercoaster..

- Having a glass of traditional New Zealand wine and toasting to our amazing adventure

- Phil asking our flight attendant what he meant by "duh-maw-doe" juice.. when really he was just trying to say tomato juice, Phil just couldn't understand his accent!

- Talking to the nicest New Zealand flight attendant ever, for long periods of time!

I promised my parents that I wouldn’t meet a New Zealander, fall in love, and stay in New Zealand forever.. But if every New Zealand girl is as nice, with as soothing of an accent as our flight attendant, and if the country’s beauty comes even close to rivalling the beauty of the girls that we’ve seen so far; this promise I made might be impossible to follow through! Just kidding, but seriously; we’re going to have an amazing time, and that’s a guarantee J So far we’re all getting along very well, and I can’t imagine that changing anytime soon. We’ll be landing in Auckland in about two hours, and then taking a 3 and a half hour flight to Sydney Australia, and I’m so ready to arrive!

Stay posted

Blessings from down under.