My Very Last Blog.

   Well, I’m home. It’s good to be back, but I miss New Zealand already. Our trip home was rather uneventful, but it took forever. We’re exhausted. We travelled almost 12,000 miles in 60 hours. It’ll be a while before I do that again!

   Saturday morning (New Zealand time), Mum and I woke up at 330 to finish packing up and get to the airport in time. We took a shuttle over there from our hotel, and boy was it windy out! It was hard to walk it was so gusty! I felt so emotional leaving Wellington that morning.

   Mum and I got into the airport, checked in, and boarded our plane. We had a longer than normal flight to Sydney because of the wind, but made it there in four hours. Piece o cake. We went through customs and immigration, checked our bags again, and had a few hours to wait before going through security. When we finally did get to security, I got checked for explosives! And frisked! What the heck! Do I look threatening?

   Our flight to LA from Sydney was 13 hours long, but not nearly as bad as the flight in February. The plane wasn’t even close to full, and the seat next to Mum and me was empty. We watched movies, slept, read, listened to music, and ate. They fed us dinner, a snack, and breakfast, and it was good! We flew Virgin Australia instead of Delta this time, and it was a much nicer flight. We took off at 11:10 AM Sydney time, and landed at 11:20 AM LA time. Flying through so many time zones is confusing!

   It was so warm when we got to LA! It’s not winter anymore! It was also still Saturday in LA, even though we left Saturday morning and had been travelling for so long! My body was very confused at this point, and it only got worse. Anyways, we were stuck in California for 10 hours before our next flight, so we headed up to the Delta Sky Club to take advantage of the free food, drinks, and internet. We really couldn’t do much, so it was pretty boring. We left once to get dinner in the airport, but for the most part, we stayed in the Sky Club and did nothing. We were too exhausted to do much else though.

   Mum and I finally left LA around midnight (west coast time), and got to Detroit at 7 AM. The flight was only about 3 hours, and I managed to sleep most of the time. We ran over to the Sky Club in Detroit to snag some free breakfast, charge our electronics, and change out of winter clothes before our next flight to Bangor. Luckily we didn’t have to wait long at this airport! We ended up taking off around 9, and I was so ready to be done with this hour and a half long flight, and our 3 day long travel. Mum was upgraded to first class for this flight, but she is soo good to me, and let me sit up there! I owe her! It was lovely. I’ve never sat first class before, so I felt spoiled! The seats were huge and comfy. The flight attendant greeted me by name, and offered me drinks and snacks like every 15 minutes. How swanky!

   We landed in Bangor at 10:40 AM after an easy flight. Dad was waiting for us on the curb, and it was so good to see him! It was also HOT out – almost unbearably after having just come from winter time! The 3 of us headed out to camp and relaxed in the sun all day, and that night I slept for 17 hours! I guess I was tired…

I think I can see my house from here...

   It was a bit strange to come back to the US after being gone for so long. Everyone has accents here! It’s weird not to hear a Kiwi accent everywhere. The money also looks funny! I’m not used to it. Another thing I’m not used to is people driving on the wrong (right) side of the road. It’s gonna be hard to adjust to driving again! It’s funny how you can get so used to something in such a short period of time.

   It was so hard to leave Wellington, but it was so good to finally land in Bangor. I’m glad to be home, and I’m excited to go back to Wells. I learned so much, did so much, met so many people, and travelled to so many places while I was abroad. It was an amazing experience and I wouldn’t change any of it for the world.

   Well, it's finally over. I'm so glad I blogged the whole time so I have something to look back on. And I'm so glad I blogged so that you could all follow me on my adventures! Thanks for reading!