March 10--High Up Again

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.  --Zora Neale Hurston

    We spent the bulk of the day accomplishing a three-hour flight from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. (By the way, this was our 11th flight of the trip; 5 more will bring us back home.) The flight was delayed. New Zealand is extraordinarily picky about what enters the country. They even had an adorable beagle sniffing everyone's luggage. And we lost two hours flying here, so we left the Sydney hotel at 7:30 and got to our Auckland hotel at 5:30. We had a buffet supper, then four of us went up the Sky Tower Auckland, a speedy elevator trip up to the 53rd floor. 

A block from our hotel

    We saw the Harbour Bridge, New Zealand's largest bridge, and the Westhaven Marina, the largest yacht marina in the southern hemisphere. 

    Behind Lanie and I in the photo below is the most recent volcano to erupt in NZ, 600 years ago. 

    The weather here is perfect, and I am eternally grateful for much lower humidity!

        Leta