{"id":2288,"date":"2009-08-07T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popnea.com\/blog\/im-here\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T05:01:00","slug":"im-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popnea.com\/blog\/im-here\/","title":{"rendered":"IM HERE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SoUQtkVjgQI\/AAAAAAAACTk\/z7FAttGuDKs\/s1600-h\/DSC_0650.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SoUQtkVjgQI\/AAAAAAAACTk\/z7FAttGuDKs\/s400\/DSC_0650.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369716505743425794\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I finally made it to New Zealand and was happy to find that one of my bags made it as well. I was waiting by the carousel forever to collect the ski bag, but the connection was too tight in Sydney for them to make it.<br \/>I was pretty bummed out, but happy to see my friends and they took me out for lunch, and the first Speights since &#8217;03 tasted soo yum!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SoUQtDl0fbI\/AAAAAAAACTc\/LxQ87o7XslI\/s1600-h\/DSC_0652.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_m_-2UlF4BdY\/SoUQtDl0fbI\/AAAAAAAACTc\/LxQ87o7XslI\/s400\/DSC_0652.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369716496953277874\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My friends had already rented a car, and they were already used to driving on the wrong side of the street. 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