Touchdown!

'Sup. I would have thought of a more inspired title for this first post from NZ but I'm running on the lowest mental capacity right now so it is not to be. So yes, I am indeed here. I arrived yesterday morning (Tuesday evening UK time) after 37.5 hours of travelling - oh my God I have just realised that's the equivalent of a full working week! Yuck! The journey was pretty rough - why I thought it was a good idea to do it in one go is beyond me. I was so tired when we touched down in LA I just wanted to turn round and go home rather than go on in the knowledge I would have to do twice this distance to get home again if I carried on. I don't mind long journeys but the atmosphere in a plane is horrible for such a long time. I didn't have any fresh air for 33 hours straight. Anyway, enough grumbling, that's over now and I am here.
Karen very kindly met me at the airport with a hug (which was very brave as I must have smelled pretty bad) and drove me in the sunshine around the harbour and back to her house in the Hutt Valley (about 15 mins outside Wellington). The house is lovely and I have my very own room with an extremely comfortable bed. I was planning to stay awake all day but failed pretty early on and went for a nap at about 12 for 3 hours. It was awesome but probably explains why I was wide awake at 3.30 this morning.
All in all Wellington is pretty much the same as it was (in apperance anyway) and I look forward to being more awake and exploring it next week. We did head out this morning for brunch at the Parade Cafe and a wander along Lambton Quay but I'd left my camera on the bed so unfortunately have no pictures to put up. I will rectify this shortly.
Anyhoo, I've completely run out of mental functioning now so I bid you farewell. I'm hopefully off up to Taranaki tomorrow so I don't know when I'll next be on the web. Waves to everyone. Sweet as. K xx