May, 28, 2018
So excited to go to Australia, I have never been there! It has always been on my list and now I am sitting on a New Zealand Air 777 crossing the International Date Line.
After getting off the Norwegian Bliss Inaugural LA cruise on Sunday I was exhausted! But it was easy to just move some items from my small suitcase to my larger one. Plus I left a bunch of things in the large suitcase from my China trip last month, so packing wasn’t too bad.
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The boys kept hugging me goodbye, they wanted to go with me. It’s so much harder to leave when they aren’t traveling with me.
The flight is 12 hours to Auckland, New Zealand where we have a 5 and a half hour layover. This is the first leg of our long journey to Western Australia.
The flight was comfortable and flight attendants very friendly and accommodating. Food was average but wine was nice. During dinner they served some great wines from New Zealand-Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir from Marlborough, Chardonnay and Sparkling from Gisborne, and Merlot from Hawke’s Bay. Plus they circulated the cabin a few times during and after dinner to refill your glass, and this is economy! I looked at some of the wines offered in Business class and I saw Billecart-Salmon and Laurent-Perrier just to start, the list was really nice.
I watched Phantom Thread, I’ve been wanting to see it, perfect uninterrupted time now.
After dinner I managed to sleep for about 9 hours, not comfortably, but still sleep. I am in the middle of a 3-4-3 configuration. Aisle seat with the two center empty and other aisle occupied. So I managed to curl up on two seats with my pillow, blinders and noise cancelling headset. Flipped around a few times but made the best of it. I woke up to the cabin announcement that we were landing in 2 hours and breakfast was being served.
I watched the end of Phantom Thread and decided I didn’t really like it. It’s the kind of movie I like but it was a little dark.
Excited to land in Auckland in a few minutes!