Arriving in New Zealand

We arrived at Aukland on what had become Friday afternoon, having set off 4.5 hours earlier from Ratotonga on what was then Thursday morning.
Problems! Rita had misplaced part of her hand luggage - viz a viz an M & S bag (posh, not carrier), containing about $200 NZ & #420 sterling (pound signs disappeared from this keyboard). Also contained her one & only waterproof for the trip and possibly some US dollars. Serious stuff for a couple of doleites such as us.
We only discoverd this missing hand lugage on landing at Christchurch (internal flight from Aukland). We stayd over night at a motel near the airport in Christchurch. Over breakfast Rita received a phone call from some Kiwi chap who had found her bag. It is now in the care of NZ Airways lost baggage and we will pick it up from Aukland on Jan 7th before flying out to Sydney.
We have since flown from Christchurch to Queenstown (rocky old flight it was too) and hired a car. We're now ensconsed at our RCI resort in Wanaka (70 odd miles from Queenstown) and I'm updating the blog from an e-mail cafe there.
It's now Sunday lunchtime - we're 13 hours ahead of the UK now.
I ended up watching Premiership footy half the night as the games in England kicked off and we have the rare luxury of TV (including Sky Sports). Doesn't sound much of an adventure, does it?