After a little bit of shuffing around due to Qantas rescheduling our flight by over 8 hours, we're back, and a little stunned to be back, especially to the land of rum-pa-pa-pum and "buy a car for Christmas."
Some things we already miss about NZ/AUS:
- Tipping as a novelty (and really "Insures Prompt Service")
- Christmas at the height of summer ("air conditioners make great holiday gifts!")
- "No worries!" "How are you going?"
- Less than 5% of the population walking around with their eyes glued to their phones
- Eggs On Toast
- Only seeing 3 Starbucks in 3 weeks
- Thorough, actual briefings to people sitting in airplane exit rows.
- Fewer commercials...but...
- Seeing George Clooney in coffee commercials
- High CD % rates
- All NZ scenery
And only a few things to leave behind:
- Standard hotel check-out times at 10am (11am for high-end business hotels)
- Internet usage measured by MBs with overage charges
- $80 fill-ups, $40 breakfasts and $18 burgers
- a lot of work to be done re: attitude toward animals and pets
Monday, December 6, 2010
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