Andrew, you have to check in your luggage!!

Yes, Andrew. Before you board a plane, you usually check in your luggage.
No, Andrew, you do not attempt to go through security with a mound of luggage and persuade them that they should find some other way to load them.
No, not even if we DO only have 20 minutes left until the plane leaves.

Ah yes. The journey was brilliant, comfortable (yes, surprisingly so), lacking any major snores (except from a significant gentleman in front of us) (earplugs work like a charm), and we both love Air New Zealand!
Yes, the transit through Auckland airport, which Mr. ZM decided to shorten by booking a flight which left 90 minutes after our touchdown, involved a lot of running with trolleys, bumping into obstacles, people, swearing in Maltese (and getting a surprising "Intom Maltin?" along the way, to which our reply was "Iva!" *zip off*), aaaand we were finally there. Don't ask how. We still don't know.
We are now in our hostel in Christchurch (really nice place!) and busy dealing with jetlag in our diverse ways; Andrew staring a lot and myself saying a lot of silly things. Then again, that means that jetlag has barely affected me...

Oh and by the way, when you get an important document with you all the way from the U.K., you do NOT use it to keep your used chewing gum simply because you could not be arsed to get up to get a tissue, Andrew. Though that was hilarious, admittedly.

So.. next few days = rafting, sky diving, and random sheep bumping....

Our blip (bottom right) will be moving - keep an eye on it! ;)