In the past 3 days, I believe my total sleep count has been less than 12 hours. The effects of sleep deprivation are evident; hard to concentrate, super tired, forgetful (left laptop in bag, oops, security scan, had to redo, security person not happy, etc), craving fatty, sugary foods, and I really, really want to lie down and sleep on the floor here in the airport terminal (it looks relatively clean).
As folks can see from the girls' posts earlier today, yesterday was a huge success at Science Olympiad. Both Mark and I are very proud of their hard work, determination, creativity, and willingness to pull all of this off. A great big thanks goes out to their Science Olympiad Coach, Ray Crawford, he really is inspirational to the kids.
Back to our traveling... It is the long haul day, we started at 5am this morning (again) and are now sitting in the San Francisco airport until we load the flight at 7:30pm PST. My state of sleep deprivation makes it a little iffy to be grading papers with a clear head, so I may try to nap for a little while first. I know that pleases my students. While I have internet access, I have download essays and other assignments to grade over the next couple of days.
Once we board the Air New Zealand flight we have a long evening of flying over the Pacific before landing in Auckland at 5:30am (Tues) (NZ time), which will be 1:00am Monday EST. Confusing, right? The last time we flew Air NZ, the food was great, the wine/beer free, and the service was awesome. I am not expecting the same level of service this time, but anything has to be better than what we experienced in our first flight today, no movie, you have to pay for a pillow ($7) and snacks ($3 and up), at least the orange juice was complementary. We are all hoping that the Air NZ flight will use the Air New Zealand safety video with the LOTR characters, here is the You Tube link: http://youtu.be/XCbPFHu3OOc.
When we arrive in Auckland, our game plan is to check into a motel early, rest, sleep, walk around Auckland, go to bed early that first night and then get up at a normal time on Wednesday to pick up our rental van. What will we do next? Our original plan was to drive south, but now Mark is lobbying for 90 mile beach, I think he needs some R&R beach time after the last week of frantic-last -minute-before-you-leave-things-to-do, I think we all do. So right now, it's undecided, I will keep the blog posted. Ka kite (Maori for "see you again, see you soon")
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