Our undeniably long flight to New Zealand was fortuitously broken up with a 7 hour layover in Vancouver. We made sure our bags were checked through, and hopped on the sky train into the Waterfront area. We met up with Nathan's long -time friend Chris, who is currently living in Vancouver, and he took us on a little walk around to see the sights, most notably the Olympic Cauldron from when Vancouver last hosted the olympics. Before we knew it our lunch date was over and we were hopping back on the train to head back to take our long 13 hour flight to Auckland.
The flight was unremarkable, being over night we somehow missed July 1st, as we took off on June 30 and landed on July 2nd. I guess that means we get to celebrate Canada Day on the flight back when we have a super long day.
Auckland was a nice town. We didn't plan much as it was a time to get rid of our jet-lag (little did we know that would take more than a week)
In the two days we were there we walked into the city twice, took the ferry over to Devonport island, to walk around in the rain, and met up with some friends, Chris and Rachel, that we met in Africa, for a nice dinner. It was very nice to see some friendly familiar faces and they dispelled any homesickness
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