...and so it begins.

I arrived at Edmonton International Airport with plenty of time to spare, I'd rather be sitting around waiting at the gate than racing and panicking to get there on time.

I sit down and pull out the paperback novel I had brought with me and began to read, after about a paragraph or two I began to question my choice. Maybe I needed to have a more stringent selection criteria than simply selecting a paperback at random from the book box in my living room - the box of assorted paperback that were previously read by someone else that I had picked up for free on the off-chance I might like to read it. The majority of the books were mysteries or suspense novels. The one I had selected was one by an author I hadn't read yet, and I thought it was the book that I cared the least about bringing back to Canada with me; as I said, not the most stringent of selection criteria. As it turns out, it's about a forensic anthropologist that investigates human remains - the TV show "Bones" is based on the author's protagonist. Unfortunately, the dead bodies she's investigating this time around are the result of a plane crash.

I read the first chapter and then thought it might be bad Karma or something to keep reading. I'm not a nervous flyer, per se, but reading about plane wreckage and body parts strewn about the woods of North Carolina might not be the best way to start my New Zealand Adventure.

Maybe music and blogging will have to be my main distractions until I'm back on terra firma in NZ - I only have to distract myself for another 16 hours....

...and so it begins - my great New Zealand Adventure!