The longest journey.......koh samui to New Zealand

We knew we had a loooong journey ahead of us to New Zealand, it didn't start to well with our taxi from koh samui arriving half hour late! But once we were at the airport we were settled :) upon arriving to samui airport we were pleasantly surprised!.......

.......it was liked no other airport we had ever seen! It was outside with all the shops either side of this tiny road which was just used for airport Buggies :) it was so pretty. We boarded our tiny plane with propellers and hoped for the best.......

......we arrived safely to bangkok and went to our overnight hotel......

 

 .....which was really nice, it had a lovely pool and the bedroom was a little odd but still very comfy.

......we arrived to bangkok airport checked in ensured seats together and went on through to departures to see this "amazing" airport that a lot of people have said was great and we were disspointed it was stupidly big and you couldn't find anything, it was made of just glass so it was like a huge green house with no air con ! And there was no proper restaurants they were all fast food, and it was just not very organised, we were a bit disspointed :( but continued our journey to singapore.

We had to catch a connecting flight from singapore to auckland and it was the first time we had ever done this so was a little nervous about it, we only had two hours to change flights and singapore was a big airport! We arrived didn't have to pick up our luggage as this was going to be taken to the next flight for us ! So we got off the flight and had no idea where we were going and nothing was sign posted so this caused a little stress! Eventually we worked it out! We had to get the sky train to another terminal and then walk for 25 minutes to our gate, we were so hungry and had only half an hour by this time, we walked to the airport desk that was way past the food court as we thought we may might have to do some sort of check in but we didn't have to so we just walked around 25 mins to the desk and it wasn't needed so we walked back to the food court! And grabbed a quick Burger King! Something I havnt had for years! Obviously I didn't eat the meat! We then went to our gate just in time as everyone was boarding!

The flight was good, no turbulence, a nice big plane it was fine :) I watched 3-4 films and couldn't sleep, Luke slept a little still suffering with his back :( I wasn't sleepy until about 30 mins before we landed when I kept falling asleep :( then I was super tired, it was such a loooong flight 10 hours :(

Anyway we landed and we hoped and prayed our bags had made it! You hear such stories about bags going missing on connecting flights! But by the time we got through all the security our bags had done 2-3 laps of the conveyer belt ! We were pleased :) we went to arrivals, attempted to get money put of a ATM but none of them would take any of our cards :( but my friend Charlene had given us some currency for each country as a pressie so we had $10 ! Which we could buy water with! She was a life saver :) we were so dehydrated and tired we just wanted to get to the hostel and sleep! We quickly found our shuttle, struggled to stay awake the whole journey we really wanted to look at the scenary but It was so hard!....we finally arrived at our hostel......

......"ponsonby backpackers" it was lovely, on a nice street, with all amenities close.....perfect.....our adventure in New Zealand begins :)