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Lit­eral Ground­hog Day in New Zealand.

Fly to Auck­land on 6.30pm flight Monday even­ing. Arrive at hotel at 12:45am. Up and awake at 6:00am for a 12 hour day of Acrobat 7.0 Road­show. Mid-afternoon, the Sky­city Con­ven­tion Centre is evac­u­ated after our room starts to fill with water and the fire alarms sound.

To the air­port, and attempt to be smart by catch­ing a 6:00pm flight to Wel­ling­ton. Take off OK, and almost arrive on Wel­ling­ton air­port. About 50m from the ground, land­ing is abor­ted due to weather and we’re off back to Auckland.

Arrive Auck­land 8:15pm, and placed on a res­ched­uled flight to Wel­ling­ton. Within 10 minutes, this flight is can­celled too. We’re groun­ded in Auck­land until the morning.

After some scram­bling, we find a hotel (of sorts) and check in at 10:30pm. After 2.5 hours of email and reports, sleep for 4 hours and awake at 5:30am for an 8:00am flight to Wellington.

At the air­port, and the 7:00am flight to Wel­ling­ton is still wait­ing for weather clear­ance in Wel­ling­ton. By 8:00am, we find out Wel­ling­ton air­port is closed until at least 4:00pm. Wel­ling­ton this New Zea­l­and trip is cancelled.

Three days, about 9 hours sleep.

Oh the glam­or­ous life in the Jet-set.