Sunday LA-We have a huge complimentary breakfast (bacon omelet) hash browns, toast. At 9am we have our first briefing and question and answer period. We have 48 people and 22 rigs as 4 woman are traveling together. Reading our trip log our shortest travel day is only 86 miles in Au. and the longest is 275. In NZ –shortest is 22mi and longest is 215miles a day . So it looks pretty relaxed. We fly to Auckland first and have a 2and half hour layoff before going to Cairns .A day is taken away from us when we cross the international date line. A 17 hour trip. We leave Sept 23 and arrive Sept 25. a 24 hour loss of existence across the Pacific. We take a short walk to try to burn off some of the excellent breakfast as we do not have to be at the airport until 3pm. I go down to post the blog in the lobby.