Nearly at our destination…relatively speaking anyway. I took this photo during our layover in New Zealand. I think it was about 5:30am local time which made it about midnight US time… I think. Honestly though, we were beginning to get delirious at this point, after about 18 hours of travel and already one layover in San Francisco. Thankfully the kids had managed to sleep well on the plane and were both rather happy. Thomas is enjoying his Toy Story colouring book that I saved especially for this leg of the trip. Nothing like a little bribery to maintain the calm.

We actually sat at this very same couch on the return trip. Thomas made some comment about being there before…

P.S. You will notice that I missed a day. We missed August 8th altogether on our trip to Australia thanks to that tricky International Date Line. Don’t worry, we gain a day at the other end (although it will be spent traveling). Just wanted to explain because I know you will all be wondering… haha.