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Nau mai, haere mai! Welcome home!

Just a quick 12 hours and we'll be there!  Plane half full means a whole row for me (and almost everyone else on the plane!) and extra blankies.  It also means lying down to sleep - so there went 5 or 6 hours, just like that!
Auckland Airport - of course it was raining when we got in this morning, but that's pretty much Auckland.  New Zealand has never had so much security.  I'm sure we stopped at 4 or 5 different people - health screens, bag screens, actual security with x-rays and stuff (!), immigration...and just one more check with some random somebodies.  Still kept our shoes on though!  Anyway, we found out our Managed Isolation Quarantine will be in Christchurch (South Island) so now one more flight to do - 9a.m. and we will be off!  Update: plane has an issue...day 1 of isolation may be spent at the airport!
Brown bag snacks provided - most suitable - esp the good NZ chocolate in the foreground (best choc in the world!).  Plenty of wifi and charging things, so (more) waiting at the airport is tolerable.  Nobody has lost the plot...no one even looking like acting the fool...no guns...no crazy...quite refreshing really!  Mind you, the systems are very efficient and everything flows well - and the airport people aren't yelling, so that helps! Hi ho, hi ho, it's off the Christchurch/Ōtautahi I go!

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