Jet lagged in the City that doesn’t sleep….. (well not actually but I am sure I will get a good night sleep tonight let’s put it that way)

So yes I have made it to NY, NY. It did take a while, for those of you playing at home it was 33 hours 2 minutes and 22.65 seconds door to door.

Amazingly I did manage to be OK for 3:50 leaving home on Thursday, but as it is still Thursday for me I don’t know how do tenses for this. This is the first day I have every had with two sunrises that I saw and two sunsets that I saw, I have been on the ground in 4 time zones so it is a bit of a strange thing for me.

The flight from Wellington was OK, a bit bumpy going out. When the turn left came you could pick well which people are used to flying out of Wellington.

Sydney Airport is as dull as ever, and as I didn’t bother going through customs and didn’t have any Aussie Cash I just sat an enjoyed the sun.

Then the 14 hour flight till they re-fueled in LAX. I am so glade I got the emergency exit row, made this a whole lot more bearable. So more or less just sit around watching movies with a bit of sleep, but I don’t think I got more than an hour in one go.

The flight lands to refuel at LAX, I didn’t see LA at all, amazing smog even Americans committed on how bad it was. Then a truly amazing experience to make thing sensible we went though customs and homeland security at LAX. The first step which I have never done in less than about 3 hours before I had completed in all of 10 minutes, not sure how they have changed things but all good. I then had a customs guy want to go though my bag, but I realized he had seen my hurricanes shirt and wanted to talk rugby (no I am not making that up).

Then back on the same plane for the flight to NY, I am so happy to be doing this legg in a 747-400 rather than in some 737 or similar, Not only are the conditions better, they actually give you food, but even better these things go higher and faster. We noticed when we were going over Arizona and about 10,000 feet below us we saw An American airways 737 (soory I have spent a lot of today looking at planes so I am noticing these things) and we simply flew streght pasted them, this leg is over 2 hours shorter then the last time I did coast to coast.

I then got a shuttle into town, the women sitting next to me and noticed my hurricanes shirt (again not making this up) she tells me that she is in town to play in the US all stars rugby 7s comp this weekend, so yes while you lot are watching the shield match I may well be watching rugby in Manhattan.

Anyway I fell the need for non-airline food so must go.