A long, long, journey

Well we didn't leave Auckland until 2.30am so that was a pretty late night for all of us!  The first half of the flight was great as we loved the games, movies, and kid's meals.  We also got some sleep.  But the novelty wore off after about 6 hours and that wasn't even half way to Phuket! We flew over the mountainous, jungle covered island of Borneo and landed for a short time in Brunei.  The cool thing they have here is the rare Proboscis monkey....weird nose aye?!

Next stop was Bangkok where is was 33 degrees celcius!  It was a huge airport with 7 levels each one of them packed with people.  Jess and Sophie loved going up and down the escalators and travelators all over the airport.  Finally we boarded our last flight to the island of Phuket and when we made it to our hotel the first thing we did, at about 6pm Thai time (we're 5 hrs behind NZ) we jumped into the pool!


We had dinner at a great little open air restaurant across the busy road - noodles (yum!) with chicken and vegies for 40 baht (about $2).  Harry also had a tooth with his dinner...he somehow lost his first baby tooth and didn't even notice until after he'd finished eating!  We think the tooth fairy will have a hard time finding that one!

What Dad reckons

• I will never get used to those airplane seats in economy class... I don't know which is worse for getting a sore butt... cycling or airplane seats on a long journey.
• Thank goodness for tv screens in the back of seats for relieving boredom and keeping 7 year old boys occupied.