its warm in LA!!
Well we have now completed the 1st part of our journey to NZ and are safely ensconced in our hotel at LAX - we decided to break the journey to give the kids (and us!!) a chance to get acclimatised gently to the time difference and to be honest I think they are doing better than us!! Hubby currently fast asleep on the bed with his 5 month old daughter lying next to him pulling his nose!!!! [smiley=icon_biggrin.gif]
The flight wasn't half as bad as I thought it would be - travelling with kids seems to bring out the best in check-in staff/security staff/airport officials - or maybe they just wanted to get us out the way asap! WHo knows!! Air New Zealand cabin crew were absolutely fantastic - they pulled out all the stops, helped us with all our hand luggage, pushchairs etc when we were getting on the plane and were really attentive to the kids during the flight -we ended up with 7 seats cos the check in guy blocked off anyone having the window seat which was next to us on one side and on the other an elderly gent moved cos he wanted to sit nearer the front (well that's what he told us anyway!!!) Kids were brill - both slept quite a bit and the older one was fascinated by the telly so the 10.5 hours went quite quickly - thank god!!!!
Unlike some of the other posters on this site, we didn't have any probs at LAX immigration/customs and were through in half an hour - again we seemed to be fast tracked cos we had little ones with us and three tonnes of luggage!! [smiley=icon_biggrin.gif] Again we had really friendly airport officials - really chatty and attentive to the kids.
So tomorrow evening we get back on NZ1 and head off down to Auckland - here's hoping this flight will be as good as yesterdays.....
Will no doubt be in touch when we get to Auckland...best wishes to everyone
Maggie and the Moo's xx
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