The morning sky was, of course, clear blue with puffy white clouds. We spent a couple of hours going through every cranny and crevice of the van, dividing things into Ours, Theirs, Throw Away, and St. Vincent DePaul's.
The latter being the useful items we'd bought on the way: the plastic baskets we bought the first day which were crucial to making the few storage shelves in the van actually useful; the coffee mugs and cereal bowls we bought at a $1 store because the ones Britz provided were so small; the two wine glasses we bought at a charity shop when we decided to carry wine for sippin'.
The Ours pile was intimidatingly large. David, responsible for packing it into our suitcases, contemplated it with some dismay.
Marian gave the van a last brush-out.
Then we still had hours to kill, so we went back to the Auckland Arboretum. After walking around smelling the roses (literally)...
...we went to their cafe and had our last Flat Whites. Then it was time to take the van back to the rental agency. We'll post about New Zealand van rentals later; it's not all a pretty story. But when all the paperwork was tidied up, the van took us to the airport, Air New Zealand gave us two aisles with an empty middle between to share, and there's nothing more to do but wait for departure (and blog).
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