Wake up at 5 am, get in the car, it's pouring down rain, and let the GPS guide us back to Auckland.
Except the GPS is a piece of crap.
It took us a weird way to get to Rotorua the first time, and it tried to take us back the same way, but we didn't want to do that, so we stayed on the highway and then it recalculated. Soon after it had us turn off of the highway. We assumed it was telling us the fastest way to the airport. Instead we drove for 25km of farm road just to get back onto the SAME HIGHWAY. So after tinkering with the settings, we learned that it was set on "Easiest Route" instead of "Fastest" or "Shortest". What on earth would have made one-lane farm roads easy, you ask? Nothing. Except perhaps the lack of cars, which is what the GPS meant by "Easy". We have no idea.
Nevertheless, we arrived back at the Auckland airport with time to spare before our flight to Fiji. The man at the check-in counter for Fiji Airways was quite rude, but other than that we had no problems.
Typical flight, and we didn't wait long for our transport to the hotel, which was very near and quite nice. There was a little fake beach by the pool, with hammocks set up around for lounging.
All in all, basic travel day.
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