Well, here goes my first blogging attempt!  After 13 hours flying from Los Angeles, I arrived here in Auckland at 6:30 a.m. local time and was met by our New Zealand partner, Adele Marsden.  The changeable weather here is famous. We started off with sunny skies and had intermittent showers throughout the day.  She took me up to Mount Eden, one of the 48 volcanoes in the city.

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