December 28, 2010 - Auckland Airport Arrival @ 6PM local time...
Our 3 hour plane ride from Sydney to Auckland seemed a lot shorter compared to our previous connection... We landed in Auckland International Airport and went through customs.
After arriving in Auckland, we proceeded to the Immigration & customs check, since we declared that we were carrying packaged Salami Sausage, our bags were inspected for any additonal foods or other items. Our Salami Sausage, present for my sister, was inspected, the label read and re-read, plus x-rayed. Guess, DO NOT bring any kind of foods into New Zealand or Australia if you are traveling there. After clearing customs, we checked out our suitcases and we waited in the terminal stops for the shuttle to take us to the Domestic Airport.
Upon arriving at the Domestic Airport, we checked for our flight and gate, our suitcases had to be checked in again, screened our boarding passes issued.
Our Flight was delayed for 1 hour, so I went on the internet Cafe and logged on to Facebook to just let everyone know we arrived safely in New Zealand. Little did we know that our next 50 min flight to Napier would become perhaps the most thrilling ride throughout this trip.
This is our plane from Auckland to Napier, a twin engine jet plane, 15 rows and 2 seats on both sides of the plane. The passengers seemed to sound just like the Australians but with a little harder accent... This ride was ROUGH! It was like riding colussus at Magic Mountain, everyone's head were bobbing up and down and sideways and anyways - we were almost ready to DIE...
We arrived at Napier Airport around 10PM, being the last flight of the day. After our flight we were glad to be back on land. My sister, niece and their partners greeted us. Our trip to my sister's house in Hastings took another 40 mins.
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