Toto! Were home!

So I made it back to NZ. And let me tell you… they talk funny down here!
I miss calculated the amount of flying it was going to take to get home. It was 5 flights not 4.

Leaving the hotel at 4.30am I made it to the airport in time to be buying alcohol (for xmas presents of course!) before 6am (a person first). The 4 hours in Mexico City airport were unbelievably boring. And the lovely man at LA airport was wrong when he told me that I didn’t have to change terminals before my next flight “so no need to hurry”. He was wrong by 2 whole terminals!… let me just say that a white chick in sweats running down the sidewalk outside the airport, yelling at people to get out the way in Spanish (because I had forgotten that I wasn’t in a Spanish speaking country anymore) turns heads and has security looking “alert”. I made it though… to my flights with only 3 mins to spare.

When I arrived in NZ they kindly informed me that they “haven’t lost my bag. They know exactly where it is… its in LA. And it will be here any day now!” well used to this routine at xmas… I thanked god they didn’t loose the bag with the presents (like they did last year) and continued on my journey. Again running to the next terminal… with less than 5 mins to spare as I checked in I was kindly told that they didn’t have “time” to charge me for my one bag being overweight. Ive never been so grateful that I didn’t have both of my bags to check…!
Flying to Wellington (the capital) they informed us that we might not be able to land… because of wind. But luckily they were wrong. And last but not least I had a great little flight on the 16 seater plane, where I was greeted by my entire family!

I have noticed a couple of really different things so far between NZ and CR. Mainly being once again able to put toilet paper down the toilet instead of the rubbish bin beside the loo. Taking a shower and not sharing it with any frogs… sleeping in a room with no geckos, and being able to dive my hand into my suitcase without first checking for spiders, or scorpians!

My family are pleased to have me home. I can tell by how the kids wont leave my side, and how mum wont stop cooking.

As you can see we didn’t waist anytime setting up the important things in life…



So I hope you all have a VERY Merry Christmas.
love and pixie dust!