Bumpy – that just about sums up the entire plane trip from Auckland to San Francisco. We flew through quite a bit of the storm front bearing down on New Zealand. That teaches us for smugly saying we’d miss the incoming weather front. Oh, and long. Thirteen hours on a bumpy plane is a long time.
We finally managed to catch up with Amanda Ashby and Sara Hantz, along with Ellie Huse and Vanessa from Australia. I also ran into Nalini Singh at both the airport and the hotel. I think I’ve seen more Kiwi writers in the last day than I’ve seen for months. I really need to get to some of the chapter meetings at home. Mr. Munro arranged for a limo from the airport. Here’s the photo of us all waiting to pile inside.
From left to right: Me, Sara Hantz, Amanda Ashby, Ellie Huse and Vanessa.
Each time I visit America my first visit to the restroom is always traumatic. Toilets flush differently over here and when all that water gushes into the bowl I worry it mightn’t stop. Ours don’t do that in New Zealand.
Another difference is the dairy creamer. We don’t have this horrid white powder in New Zealand. We have these tiny milk pottles or the hotel/motel usually provide real milk. Ugh, I’d forgotten about creamer and the fact I’d have to use it for the next six weeks.
I attended the Kiss of Death AGM and had the pleasure of listening to guest speaker, Allison Brennan. She gave every attendee two of her recent releases. I enjoy Allison’s books and loved her inspirational talk on writing.
Well, that’s me for tonight. I’ll try to post this tomorrow, but meantime my eyes are really tired. I’m going to catch some sleep.
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August 1st, 2008 at 6:15 am · Link
They don’t have real cream in the US?
I’m so not going there. :D
August 1st, 2008 at 9:44 pm · Link
They do have cream or milk for tea and coffee but a lot of hotels and restaurants use the nasty creamer stuff. It’s really horrid!!
August 4th, 2008 at 8:17 pm · Link
You might do better on your trip to see the bears. Glad to see you made it all right to San Francisco.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:02 am · Link
Great picture of some dedicated writers. Hope to meet up with you one of these days.