We started this adventure on January 8 flying from Fort Myers to Houston and then on to Auckland, New Zealand. We had fortunately booked our hotel for a day prior so our room was available as soon as we got to the hotel and although we had slept on the long flight, we were tired and slept for about 3 hours.
We went out to walk to a large park near our hotel called The Domain. It was extremely hot and humid and after seeing the duck pond came back to the hotel. There was a museum in the park, but we did not have the energy to go to it.
We spent the afternoon watching American football games, that is the royal we, really only Bob watched. Had a lovely dinner in the hotel bar, my pulled brisket burger with 2 different sauces was supposedly the best in Auckland, and I have to admit it was very good.
The hotel was full of Jehova Witnesses who were having their worldwide annual convention in Auckland. They were all friendly, wore costumes and, sort of like at Disney, had lanyards full of pins. There were over 3,000 in the city and our hotel was hosting about 500. All the ones we spoke to were from the United States.
We tried to stay awake until 9:30, to hopefully get onto New Zealand time, but failed. An early to bed it was.
As you can guess from the title to this post, we are going to be covering lots of ground in the next few weeks. Stay tuned.
Bette and Bob See the World 
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