Happy birthday to Jemima

We're off to New Zealand today. We would be on the plane about now but our flight was cancelled and they put us on the next one. It's annoying for 2 reasons:

- today was the thing where you know you have to go somewhere later so you don't do anything interesting and end up just packing and sitting around all day
- our flight now lands in Christchurch at 3:30am. Which means that, excited as I will be to be in the homeland of the Patchetts, it will be the middle of the night and we will not get much in the way of sleep. We were going to check into a hostel, but then we thought we'd save the money on a night's accommodation and just sleep in the airport and check into the hostel at 10am, thus only paying for TOMORROW night. Sound like a good idea? No.

In other news, I've booked myself into a hostel for my solo arrival back into Sydney: the 19th of November. I will be staying here http://www.billabonggardens.com.au/ for a couple of weeks while I look for somewhere to stay. Newtown, Sydney - compared by this hostel to London's Camden, my favourite place ever, and hometown of my favourite people...I hope you're reading and that compliment's not wasted Toerzy!!