Everyone was worried about the flights. One 5 hr flight to Vancouver, followed by a 14 hr flight to Auckland, followed lastly by a 1 hr flight to Christchurch. Luckily, the flights were a breeze. Everyone slept for about 8 hours.
From Stella: I was on a plane for 20 hours total. The plane went up and down. I was kind of scared and on one plane there was a ‘seat chat’ – it’s where you type a word and the person in another seat can text you back. I loved it and I watched Secret Life of Pets and Marley and Me. I also liked that there were games too, even though I didn’t understand them.
From Leo: On the first plane to Vancouver I did some math homework. The first few hours on the second plane to Aukland I watched the movie, Dumb and Dumber. After that I slept for 6 hours on the plane, while I was sleeping there were these warm socks and a good pillow to lie down on and the seat went back. We took a 2 hr car ride here and I got us lost in the mountains because I screamed in the car so Daddy missed the turn off. Once we got here it was so beautiful, all the scenery and after that Stella met these 2 girls and they took us up a mountain and it was so crazy to look down and see that we were like 40 meters in the air. I am going to say this to my friends but it’s kind of embarasing that a 5 year old knew how to get up a mountain and I was so scared. Almost right away when my head hit the pillow I fell asleep and it was a nice sleep.
When we landed we got our car and drove an hour and a half to Akaroa – a small town on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand (only 640 people with a school of only 40 kids). We are staying at the Paua Farm – a working farm with 11 herding dogs, too many sheep to count and a few cats and chickens. Stella became fast friends with the couple’s grand-daughters (Bella – 5, and Taylor, 3). Leo thought it was pretty cool that a 5 year old was running around a mountain with her Vishla, and showing a bunch of strangers how the dogs herd the sheep.
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