here we go again.

after a great time in australia and a wonderful stay in melbourne it was time to move on to the next country, new zealand. we got to the airport at 7:45 am and got to the ticket counter by 8:30 am. this is where it get sticky so everyone pay attention. we decided to take our chances and not get a ticket out of NZ, like our US travel visas say we need to do. so we are at the counter and the lady says, "sorry guys you need a ticket out of nz and so you came book with me right now or try a different counter. you need to be back to me by 9 am the latest." by the way, the plane takes off at 9:30am. right, off to the races. quantas airline to freedom air to singapore airline and then to air new zealand. air new zealand had the best deal and could get us out of the country. time check, 8:55am. hey sam you want to go to fiji, hey jen fiji sounds great. booked the ticket and now the time is 9:05am. by the way the people at air new zealand said that the ticket should be fine to get into and out of the country. running back to the 1st counter we were at, we showed the lady our onward ticket to fiji. guess what, that wasnt good enough. for some reason she also needed proof that we were getting out of fiji. times ticking. 9:10. what do we do. well the lady said that we could book a ticket from fiji back to melbourne for $1,000. what, at this point sam lost it. this lady is telling us we have to spend 2 months worth of savings to get out of a country that has nothing to do with new zealand. if im confusing people at this point, its ok because we are still confused. but we had to get to new zealand, so we trusted this lady and got the tickets. right, running thru security to the gate it looks like our plane was delayed about 45 minutes so much for running around.

k, so we are off the plane and going through customs and the lady could have cared less about our ticket out of fiji, she just wanted to see the ticket that said we were getting out of her country. getting out of her country. right now we are pissed but there is nothing we can do. we made it to our hostel and found an internet cafe where sam then checked her email and bank statement. some how the conversion rate was off. for the ticket we didnt need it showed up as only half of what it was supposed to. long story short, the damn lady at the ticket counter didnt tell us that the ticket was in fiji money. now if you were telling someone something they didnt want to hear and they were crying about it wouldnt you try to make them fell better by telling them that you really werent spending $1,000 you were only spending $500. fucking people.

on a better note, we are going to fiji on new years day.