Readying for the wind!

Leaving Auckland at a 6am flight, on a windy, cold & rainy day, people next to me on the plane told me a way to get ready for Wellington. When the plan landed it was blue sky, sunny, no wind - a perfect spring day - and a surprise!

Wrong gate

Once we were going to Queenstown and we heard a flight announcement. We gave the lady our boarding passes. What we didn't realise is that the line was to fly to Auckland! Whoops!

Bumpy applause

Flying into Welly from CH-CH in a howling northerly, a tad lumpy and bumpy and when the pilot touched down after 1[sic] aborted attempt and two bounces, the plane passengers and crew erupted in applause. My 5-yr old said 'better than a roller-coaster...