Up in the sky

Skydiving didn't eventuate. Dave and Luke were far too tired to bother with any type of exciting activity on the morning of our flight, and it was too cloudy (and slightly rainy) to do anything anyway. We ended up playing some giant chess at Cathedral Square. I was giving Dave some bad advice and his black side lost quite spectacularly to Luke's red side.

Afterwards, we caught the free bus around town because we had nothing else to do. Dave and I stopped at a sushi train for a quick lunch before heading to the airport. To my delight, there was a Timezone in the airport with some really old arcade machines. Dave and I played Sega Rally and I won a couple of times before we boarded our flight.

It was cloudy all the way to Sydney, and the weather conditions were almost as bad as the in-flight movie (21) when we approached the airport for landing. Being the thrill-seekers that we were, we were really excited when we went below the clouds and the plane was still shaky as it approached the ground. Some of the other passengers looked a bit worried, but despite everything the plane landed safely with the help of the reverse thrusters. It was really cool.

Sydney was warm compared to NZ, and it was nice to be able to complain about temperatures above 10 Celsius as being cold again.

New Zealand overview

Days spent: 9
Temperature: Cold
Days on the ski hill: 5
Crashes that would have looked very amusing to other people (but really hurt): 2