Sunday – 17 February 2008: Enroute Buenos Aires – Auckland – Sydney – Perth
Arrived in Sydney and headed to duty free to rebuy the alcohol and perfume and Scott also got himself a new iPod shuffle to take to uni.
We made it through Customs but had to give up our biscuits at Quarantine, apparently the dulce de leche which is cooked for about 3 hours still is not cooked enough for Australian standards and may contain foot and mouth disease, even the official said it was a pile of rubbish but he didn’t have a choice. They let through all the wooden items etc though.
Saturday – 16 February 2008: Enroute Buenos Aires – Auckland – Sydney – Perth
Get to Auckland airport and they wont allow any of the alcohol to be taken back onto the plane, apparently due to regulations that you cant transit with alcohol, so we had to surrender that and the people that was over 100ml in size. This was extremely frustrating and we were livid, but the option was to miss the flight and get a later one or give it up and I went with the give it up, although I think Scott wanted to argue and miss the flight.
We are scheduled on the 7.20pm flight home but went to the Qantas transfer desk and they put us on the 5.45pm flight and didn’t even charge us to change it. So we plonked ourselves down in Qantas Club, had a shower and then drank and ate as much as we could as Qantas are unable to change my meal, but at least told me, so I could buy a sandwich.
The flight was uneventful and the service was good, food was good as well – one of the food options was actually vegetarian. At this stage we are loving Qantas.
Well we finally landed at 8.45pm and we are home at last.