Flying International!

 Complications flying Australia ~ New Zealand ~

I have flown around the world ~ Oz ~ Singapore ~ London ~ Europe ~ Israel ~ Egypt ~ Dubai ~ but seemed to have had more difficulties on this short flight than those above!!


First was the loong 90 minute wait at Gold Coast including Murray having to line~up 3 times with his 5' golf clubs bag.  Airline counter, paying overweight $100 counter & oversized baggage counter!!  (Stress!)


As the airline didn't have enough Immigration cards we had to find & fill in at NZ end (more stress).  
We queued for Duty Free goods & came in with 12 bottles of booze (well, we are in NZ for month/s!), queued for Overseas Currency Exchange, & finally, being last to get through Customs, clear ordinary baggage, that oversized golf bag (again!) department ~ then, final Customs counter wanted to see Murray's golf shoes.  It took him 3 suitcases to actually find his spotlessly clean golf shoes, but they still wanted to have a look.  Why he opened my case & threw lingerie around, I don't know.
My sister, Marion & my nephew were waiting, patiently, for us to come through & fortunately had their 2 cars waiting for us to take us 'home'.  Rain didn't help proceedings.  Car park ticketing & boom bars not working, didn't help us either!!
But, we had arrived in Auckland city for our adventure, settled in West End Quality Inn & then across the road to meet family waiting at my sister's apartment in Grey Lynn.

Continuing the creation of AllisonWonderland'z saga...