It was rather sad waking up to the realisation that our holiday was almost over. It was even sadder to pack our bags and realise that we were probably dangerously close to our 23kg weight limit. Eek!
We trundled our bags out to the car and hit the road back to LA with the shimmering towers of Las Vegas fading in the rear view mirror. I had mixed feelings about leaving Vegas: the relief at leaving the superficiality and crushing crowds behind was tempered by disappointment at saying goodbye to the desert landscape I'd grown to love.
When we got to LA I just had to have one more visit to Walgreens. Little did we know when we got off the Freeway we ended up in Inglewood which is apparently a well-known as a high crime area. On the way from Walgreens to the airport we came across a police cordon in the street around a dead guy under a sheet (http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_17900982). Very good of the locals to give us a quintessentially LA experience before we left.
I had hoped that our flight home would be less crowded than the one over and we might have an empty seat between us to spread out but alas our original flight was cancelled and we were herded onto an earlier flight that was fully booked. I cried at the thought of being shoe-horned into my seat for 12 hours. The only positive thing that can be said about the flight was I got to watch The King's Speech on the in-flight entertainment system. Great movie but my poor ankles are still swollen.
We landed in Auckland at about 5.30am, bleary-eyed and fed up. The only thing drearier than Auckland on a Sunday is Auckland on Good Friday. We must have crossed the International Date Line into 1956. There was not a soul around. To kill time until we could check into our motel we picked up a rental car and tooled over to Mission Bay for a horribly overpriced breakfast and then onto Devonport to wander on the pier. You know how when you're so overtired you get the stares and you can't focus on anything??? Well, we had passed that point and were dead on our feet. We made it to the motel and napped for about 4 hours before heading out for fush n chups for dinner.
Tomorrow: HOME!!!!
Vxxx
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