Auckland and home

SO the car didn't sell but the good news was that Kate Schafer and her boyfriend BJ managed to get off Great barrier island- something we thought would never happen- and we gave it to them for its next set of adventure.
Cassy and rich got us drunk on sat, or really it was just that the horse races were BYO so it was all down hill from there. After the races we went to the blues game which none of us really remember very well, but i know it was good and that they came back to make it a five point game after being behind by like 30 points. the rest of the day was mostly a hang over.
having nine people in the apartment for two days turned out to be fun, probably because it was only for two days, but having other travelers around gives some level of normalcy to life, or at least made us feel less like vagabonds.
the rest of our time in NZ was spent mostly hanging out enjoying being in an apartment with friends, cooking, watching old weeds and simpsons episodes on rich's computer and finally seeing Kate after being in the same country for almost a month.
They dropped us off at the airport on thurs night at 9pm and we reached LAX Thurs. morning some six hours before we left.
Landing on American soil felt almost as good as getting through customs and finding our luggage in less than 15 minutes. Our first meal back was tex mex at Chevy's followed by 12 hours of straight sleep, well Aaron is going on 14.