Chillin’ in the Cooks
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006If you ever want to really mess with someone’s head, ask them to figure out dates when crossing the International Dateline. Somehow, our itinerary has us crossing it three times on our trip. The first time was when we flew into Fiji. We only saw about an hour of September 30th in Honolulu and arrived in Nadi at 7AM on October 1st. However, going to the Cook Islands, we crossed back and managed to see both October 6th and 7th twice! We flew out of Nadi on the afternoon of the 7th and arrived in Rarotonga on the evening of the 6th! Our third and last crossing of the dateline occurs when we lose another day flying to Auckland after leaving the Cook Islands. [read on]
tambour