Wednesday 02/11/2010

So we once again woke to face another day in Hollywood with the intent to A. Get Rowe and Edd some running shoes, B. Get pictures of the hand prints at the chinese theatre and lastly go on an organised walk up Runyon Canyon to see views of the sign as well as the city. I'm pleased to say we managed to do all of the above as well as manage to stumble across the filming of a TV show called "Southlands" which features Ben Mckenzie (Ryan attwood from the O.C).

We wanted to get an early night due to us believing we were to fly to Auckland the next day but then the drama happened.......

So the night before we believe we are to fly to Auckland, Rowe receives an email from his "cousin" in Auckland (We were staying at there house and she was picking us up from the airport) saying she has been waiting at the airport for 2 hours and that she had contacted the police due to her not knowing why we had not been on the plane etc. Rowe relayed this email to me and so we decided to check our itinery to see why she thought we would have been in Auckland on that date only to discover that our flight was landing on the 4th New Zealand time and not flying out on the 4th U.S time. We therefore spent the rest of the night phoning Qantas and STA to try and see what to do. Qantas told us to contact STA which is tricky when the STA offices wouldn't be open till 3am U.S time. So we proceeded to wait and ring various branches to try and resolve the problem.

Eventually we contacted STA and they informed us that they could not help and that we had to fork out the full amount for a flight to Auckland. We discovered previously that if that was the case it would cost us £780 which is a large sum of money at the best of times let alone when you are travelling. So after a little digging around I suggested we could fly from L.A to Fiji and then to Auckland for £500. So we decided we would fly to fiji that day and spend 4 nights in Fiji before flying to Auckland. It was now 6 am and eventually we had come to a solution which satisfied us all.

Thank God............Fiji here we come.