We arrived in auckland on monday after the most horrendous eleven hour flight!! Stuck in the middle aisle with no leg room and ppl regularily standing on my toes (Ok technically it only happened once but still....) Flew through security and everyone was lovely chatting away. It was harder getting out of hong kong then into NZ!! They could not understand why we did not have an outbound flight of NZ!!
The day we arrived was also the day the tonga team arrived and the supporters were going MENTAL!!! Bus loads of them were heading to the airport all decked out in red! Amazing athmosphere! The weather was lovely and the bus driver friendly! He filled us in on loads of interesting facts as we drove through the city! The hostel was right in the middle of the main street and was nice enough! We had a brazilian roommate whom we never saw!! It was like having the room to ourselves again!! The first day we napped because none of us had slept on the plane! We met claire and denise after for dinner!! It was lovely seeing them again and catching up! We were in bed by half ten though! Tiredness got us!
After a good twevle hour sleep we were ready to face the day! Sorted out the boring bits, i.e bank,food, and then was the fun of drinking! Went to the hostel bar-three free cocktails how could we resist!Lee took part in an iron man competition which really set the tone for the evening!! Six oclock the next morning we crawled into bed....we slept till half three..im not going to lie we did not see alot of auckland! We left the next day to head to New Plymouth!!!
Six and half hours on a bus with some of the most amazing scenery i've ever seen and we arrived! There was also another lovely bus driver filling us in on random sheep shearing facts! Sinead and eoin beat us to the hostel and were lying in bed waiting for us knackered after a forty hours of flying!! We had a catch up and food and bed called!
Went out for the opening ceremoney last night and finally saw some rugby! The build ups been amzing but it time to get down to it now!! After the rugby we spend the night dancing and chatting to kiwis!!!Best part was walking through the drive though in burger king on the way home and having to persuade the lads to let us buy food! Apparently walk throughs arent welcome :P
But finally, finally we get to go to a rugby match tomorrow! Ireland vs USA!! We are all counting down the seconds! Spend today watching the matches letting the excitement build!! We have the jerseys, flags, face paints, hair extentions and tattoos all ready to go! Cannot wait!! I'll have a full update for that on tuesday- i'll probably still be hungover on monday!!!
But the most important thing to note so far is that everyone we meet seems to have met the irish team and i still have not!! I remain hopeful though!!
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