8 June (2x) Whangarei/Auckland/Sydney/Hawaii

You might be wondering why I put (2x) behind 8 June. Thats because we had a sort of Groundhog Day (for our older followers) on the 8th of June but then different. We left the holiday park in Whangarei, New Zealand at 9.30 in the morning on the 8th of June and we arrived in Honolulu at 9.00 in the morning of the 8th of June. How can this be would you wonder, well that's because we crossed the international date line that is placed between New Zealand and Hawaii. So our 8th of June lasted very long, but I'll begin at the beginning.

As I said we left our last holiday park at 9.30 to drive to Auckland to return our campervan and catch the plane to Sydney where we had to transfer to our flight to Honolulu. This was also the very last time we were at the airport in Sydney and fortunately also the last time this journey that we had to watch John Travolta being funny at the beginning of the security film in all Quantas planes. Our next flights will only be American Airlines and British Airways.

We had a good flight to Honolulu (almost 10 hours) and we even managed to get all a bit of sleep but that was probably only because they had a lousy entertainment system on board, just 1 big screen for our entire part of the plane.
We arrived in Honolulu at 9.00 am and were greeted with aloha's by the personnel we met at the airport. We took a taxi to Kailua where we booked a sort of bed and breakfast, that turned out to be very nice with our own appartment, a swimming pool, a wonderful dog and a lot of small lizzards.

We didn't do much today as we were sort of pooped by all the travelling. We just went to have a look at the beautiful beaches of Kailua and we did some shopping. In the evening we made our own taco's and now it's 19.30 and we are sort of ready to go to bed.