The flight back to Auckland was uneventful, sticky, and long. The queue at Passport Control was out of control, appallingly long, and boring. Also sticky. If I'd had a stick, I would have poked people with it to make them move faster. Of course, that would have gotten us to the baggage carousel faster, which wouldn't have helped. The carousel listed as having our plane's luggage did not, in fact, have it. Eventually rumours filtered around that it was on another carousel, and (for once) rumours proved to be correct. With luggage, there was customs, and then finally, we escaped into the arrivals section to get hugs from Ben and Aria and be pleased to be on home turf again.
Oh, the sooper-sekrit mission we had on our last Friday in Surfer's? Al and I went and got matching tattoos. They look fantastic.
I've been working on photos from the trip, and about half of them are up now - pics of views from our room, Dream World, Dracula's Cabaret, and Sea World. Click here to see all of them, or keep reading after the cut to see some good ones.
Part of the view from our hotel room
This lizard hanging out in the smoking area at Dream World seemed to like us
We got matching temporary tattoos
Al meets a pelican
The roller-coaster at Sea World is exactly the same as the one at Rainbow's End, we think
Seeing the dolphins was amazing
And the dugongs were out of this world!
I'll put up more photos, including ones of our tattoos, once they're edited.
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