Good Bye Asia... Hello normal toilets!

Would you beleive we actually made it??
And with little to no emotional turbulance on the way.. Thank the heavens!
We took our 10 hour flight here and landed yesterday at 12:00pm.
Customs should have gone smoother but we ran into a little trouble when I was "caught" for bringing in "non-disclosed" wood.. (It just slipped my mind that the wood vase we had and other items etc were made of wood and therefor classified as a plant..... OOOPS!!)
They gave us a rough time expecially since the one item had bugs in it.. Double oops.. and informed us that our item either had to be fumagated at the cost of $80 or it could be distroyed.. So... Sorry mom.. Looks like you wont get the buisness card holder I got you.. Dont worry - It was hideous, but I think you would have loved him..I sure did.. But he has gone to a better place.
So then the man escorted us away from customs and into the "This is my lecture of being responisble) place. He then pointed at the sign of a mandatory $200 fine for non disclosure of items. We explained had we realized it was catagorized as a plant we would have disclosed it as we had no reason not to. He lectured us some more then was very kind to just give us a warning.. However I have been forever black listed in New Zealand and will have to go through searches everytime I come into the country.. Oh Well... I would rather that then be fined!
We got a shuttle to Auckland Central Backpackers - Got our dorm room for six and when we got there one of the beds had been slept in and there was a suitcase there. They advised no one should be in that room so they took the suitcase and remade the bed and we hunkered down for a nap as we had not slept for the last 30hrs.
Sometime durring our sleep the door opened and a guy peeped in then left. When we woke up we went to front desk and advised them what happened and they realized a key was missing and someone had it that shouldn't so we promptly changed rooms which worked out well since the new room had a lot more room to move around in.
Bob,Sarah, Kirby and I went out for a nice coffee and then back to the room where we ran into Chris who had just downloaded the last 3 new episodes of The OC, so we sat in one of the TV rooms and watched 2 episodes until 4:00am. Then Jay came back from the internet and we sat around and talked for hours. The boys went out at 6:00am and got us some McDonalds breakfast (Which is terrible at home, but even worse here)
And we finally got some shut eye at the wee hour of 8:00am.
Sarah was ever so kind to wake us up at 3:00pm so we crawled out of bed, did some laundry and went for a great Starbucks (Which there is one every corner here)
We went to the Skytower right down the street as I found out yesterday it has a casino. I tried myluck at the money wheel (Changed in $10 for 4 chances) you have to bet $2.50 on which city the wheel will land on based on the odds and lost my $10.00.
Then everyone played blackjack for 1/2hr-1hr. Kirby lost his $20.00, I walked out with the $20 I had changed and the $10 I lost on the money wheel and Jay and Chris was also up.. I think Sarah would have been up if she didn't keep giving it to Bob to lose.
Tomorrow we are heading to the movie theatre and seeing Harry Potter.. I can hardley contain my excitment!