Waiting at Gate 43

Just landed at Hong Kong airport at the halfway stage where it's 4.20pm local time.  Got an hour or so to wait before getting back on the plane to Auckland.  Flight so far has been absolutely fine, we've all had a reasonable amount of sleep and nobody has had a tantrum (not even Dave or me!).  Think we definitely benefitted from Reuben and Tilly having recent experience of flying to Israel as it has seemed relatively familiar to them.  From where we are in the terminal we are right next to the gate for an El Al flight - Reuben is definitely into jet-setting mode as when we told him the plane was going to Israel he said 'I want to go to Israel again because it was so brilliant!'.  Maybe next week Reuben... Tilly has been busy saying 'whoosh' at every departing plane and flashing cheeky smiles at a Sikh gentleman sitting behind us.

Dave is currently 'exercising' the children on a travelator, which is relatively deserted, so we hope to have them well tired out ready to do some more sleeping in a few hours time and wake up just before we get to Auckland feeling all perky.  That's the plan, anyway.  When I post again from NZ you'll be able to find out what really happened!