It's 5pm LA time and we have just arrived at our motel. It has been a long (very long) day. As we were at the Invercargill airport to check in, the attendant told me that my ESTAS (Visa) was not correct and that she could only give me boarding passes to get me as far as Auckland without it. It seems that I used the letter N instead of M when putting in my passport number. I had to re-apply online then all should be good when I get to Auckland. No problem, I got that sorted using the tablet and the airports WiFi. When I checked in at Auckland they said it hadn't gone through! It turns out that ì had signed up on a scam site and had been ripped off to the tune of NZD 117.
They applied for me while I contacted the bank to cancel the credit card. All sorted. Yay.
After the 12 hour flight and a 3 hour queue for customs we were free to catch the shuttle. A quick freshen up then to downtown long Beach for a lovely seafood meal and a free bus tour out to the Queen Mary Hotel/ship. It was then time for bed, 36 hours since we last got out of ours.
Met this cool dude in the Auckland airport.
Grover pointed out this cool hotel.
The CHP OFFERED to take us for a ride around the block with the lights on, Vicki thought they may not let us out.
The Queen Mary
Sounds like a hellish start, details eh!
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