Ready As We Can Be

                                                

Our bags are packed and we're ready to go, as the song says.  With the clever use of compression bags and gleanings from many years of watching Dr Who travelling in the Tardis (which is SO much bigger on the inside!), we have stuffed 4 1/2 months worth of clothes, shoes and other necessities into these two.  Not too heavy for carrying around on our backs and small enough to hold on our laps on board public transport, they appear to be ideal...for now!  No room for duty-free booze or presents, unfortunately, so seeing us is going to have to be pleasure enough.
We leave our Gisborne Gaff at 6.00 am tomorrow, pick up our chauffeur and head to the airport for our flight to Auckland at 7.05.  The weather is forecast to be horrid, so we are planning to spend quite a bit of our day's wait in a Day Room near the airport and visiting with Sarah, Richard's daughter.
Then at 7.30 pm, we are off to San Francisco, wearing the flowers in our hair that have been cunningly concealed inside the above packs! 
Years of watching Dr Who and Star Trek and we still haven't learnt the answer to this: How come we leave NZ at dinner time on Saturday and arrive in the USA at lunchtime on Saturday and, more to the point, how can you fit two lunches and two dinners in the same size stomach?  Maybe it expands when you do Time Travel, although the Doctor has never discussed this ...