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Saturday, July 19, 2008

We’ve booked the tickets and fly out on August 10th, landing at LAX 2 hours and 10 minutes before we left our home town of Invercargill. I honestly don’t know who’s more excited, whether it’s me, J, or the boys who keep coming out with things like “Not long now!“, not to mention TJ’s endless barrage of silly questions.

“It’s 40 degrees in Vegas, TJ”
“That’s too hot. How am I going to sleep?“
“Well, you probably won’t want to use any blankets, plus we have air-conditioning.“
“What if that’s still too hot?“
“Then we’ll buy you a fan to put beside your bed”
“But what if the fan makes too much noise and I can’t sleep cos of that?!“

Of course, we’re doing things the crazy way. We have a total of one hour and forty-five minutes worth of layovers before we exit New Zealand. We’ll basically be getting off one plane and hot-footing it to the next. It’s what I wanted though. The lengthy layovers we experienced when we traveled to Auckland for our interviews were painful enough with the boys diabolical alternation between love and hate and my not being able to escape. The one time I managed to wander off for five minutes of peace, they both followed within a couple of minutes, sparking an ‘abandoned bag’ scenario ...

J is meeting us at LAX and we’re driving back to Las Vegas. Not only was it the cheaper option, but we thought it’d give the boys a chance to see a little taste of the scale. Like me, they’ve rarely been out of their home town, and if a city of 1 million had them floored, imagine what their first experience in a place like LA will be like?

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