My Bad
I suppose that I should really have mentioned our safe arrival back in NZ...
The continuation of the Kiwi Returns Home was briefly as follows.
After Getting up and having a quick breakfast we went down to the Front desk for Timings of the Metro and Buses into Downtown LA.
After finding that the closest one was about 1 minle south of us I decided it was such a nice day with nothing but time on our hands we could walk...
Brandy deciding that she didn't like the fact that I was in control of the Directions, decided to ask a Police Officer who was finishing a report regarding an accident that occured on the road in front of the Hotel.. Before I knew what had happened. We were all bundled into the Police car and driven down to the Metro Station.
We go into Downtown Hollywood for the Typical sightseeing and have our meal and phots around the place including several hundred of the Pavement with those Stars, before we saw a big commotion across the Street in front of the New complex that was built since my last visit there a couple of years earlier.
With the Kids in tow I tried to get them across the road so that they could see the Cameras and Boom Microphones used in Television etc, and just as we were about to cross the road, they started to come to us.
Apparantly it was a series of a Fairly new show where New Bands are challenged to get passers-by to go on video with them singing their new Song and they would get points for each person who does it. So The kids and myself all agreed to do it, we wondered over the road and were promptly handed some percussion instruments to strike as the Band sang the song for the Video camera with about 36 others...
The show airs on MTV2 so keep an eye out for the Singing and Rocking Kiwi and family.
We were delayed with this filming so much that even the final 50 yards to the Manns Theatre was too much time and we had to hurry back to the Metro to get back to the Hotel to catch the Valet Service to the Airport for our trip to Auckland...
WELLLLLLLL, all did not go as planned... the metro had Mechanical problems delaying the second train we had to catch, and a little panic started to strike Brandy, I just shrugged shoulders and said oh well not much we can do now except wait. About 20mins later along came the Metro that took us all the way back without another single hitch.
Bags into Bus and off to the Airport to go back into Security Lines for Baggage checks before Ticketing, and then onto the Ticketing Counter... where I then found out we didnt have a direct flight, it was with a 2 hour layover in Tahiti, a nice place to visit with Time on your hands, AND DAYLIGHT, we arrived at 11pm local time and had to remain in the Airport... at least this airport allowed smoking... so that was a welcome and timely relief for me if nothing else.
Then onto NZ and arrival around 6am and then slight Custom Delays before being met by my brother with his medium sized car, and knowledge that we all 4 had 2 suitcases, 1 personal and 1 carry one bag each... so it was into the Airport Shuttle service and $100 later we got to his house for a well deserved relaxing 4 days until our move to Tauranga.
And her is where we are to this date...
So sorry about the delay in this.. but as the say better late then never.
The continuation of the Kiwi Returns Home was briefly as follows.
After Getting up and having a quick breakfast we went down to the Front desk for Timings of the Metro and Buses into Downtown LA.
After finding that the closest one was about 1 minle south of us I decided it was such a nice day with nothing but time on our hands we could walk...
Brandy deciding that she didn't like the fact that I was in control of the Directions, decided to ask a Police Officer who was finishing a report regarding an accident that occured on the road in front of the Hotel.. Before I knew what had happened. We were all bundled into the Police car and driven down to the Metro Station.
We go into Downtown Hollywood for the Typical sightseeing and have our meal and phots around the place including several hundred of the Pavement with those Stars, before we saw a big commotion across the Street in front of the New complex that was built since my last visit there a couple of years earlier.
With the Kids in tow I tried to get them across the road so that they could see the Cameras and Boom Microphones used in Television etc, and just as we were about to cross the road, they started to come to us.
Apparantly it was a series of a Fairly new show where New Bands are challenged to get passers-by to go on video with them singing their new Song and they would get points for each person who does it. So The kids and myself all agreed to do it, we wondered over the road and were promptly handed some percussion instruments to strike as the Band sang the song for the Video camera with about 36 others...
The show airs on MTV2 so keep an eye out for the Singing and Rocking Kiwi and family.
We were delayed with this filming so much that even the final 50 yards to the Manns Theatre was too much time and we had to hurry back to the Metro to get back to the Hotel to catch the Valet Service to the Airport for our trip to Auckland...
WELLLLLLLL, all did not go as planned... the metro had Mechanical problems delaying the second train we had to catch, and a little panic started to strike Brandy, I just shrugged shoulders and said oh well not much we can do now except wait. About 20mins later along came the Metro that took us all the way back without another single hitch.
Bags into Bus and off to the Airport to go back into Security Lines for Baggage checks before Ticketing, and then onto the Ticketing Counter... where I then found out we didnt have a direct flight, it was with a 2 hour layover in Tahiti, a nice place to visit with Time on your hands, AND DAYLIGHT, we arrived at 11pm local time and had to remain in the Airport... at least this airport allowed smoking... so that was a welcome and timely relief for me if nothing else.
Then onto NZ and arrival around 6am and then slight Custom Delays before being met by my brother with his medium sized car, and knowledge that we all 4 had 2 suitcases, 1 personal and 1 carry one bag each... so it was into the Airport Shuttle service and $100 later we got to his house for a well deserved relaxing 4 days until our move to Tauranga.
And her is where we are to this date...
So sorry about the delay in this.. but as the say better late then never.
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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