Weather the weather

We had dodgy weather in Wellington for Monday morning's drive to the airport.  Dodgy as in torrential rain, flooding, road closures, Victoria Tunnel closed etc - thanks Sue for encouraging an early start

So nice to have a clear sunny day in Auckland for the walk to the international terminal.  All good until it wasn't - a thunderstorm hit while waiting to board,  so they had to stop loading the luggage,  leading to a 20-30 min departure delay.  The storm didn't stop the loading of passengers, although we were met at the plane door by two cabin crew holding up food trays to keep the water pouring onto the boarding passengers.  One of them welcomed me, and I quote, with a "shower of blessings"

We did arrive in Singapore pretty much on time. And here I sit in transit for 3 hours.  It's a long 32 hours Welly to Paris