Off to Africa

We had a long trip, leaving a wet, cold Wellington at 6.45 am for Sydney. The flight was late landing due to fog in Sydney, and we spent time circling in a holding pattern, desperately hoping we did not have to go to Brisbane to refuel as that would mean problems with our connecting flight.  However the pilot landed us safely and we transferred to our next flight which was late anyway.  Once on board we were told we would be waiting for up to an hour for people on other delayed flights! So finally departed Sydney just over two hours late.
It was a smooth 14&1/2 hour flight to Johannesburg. We landed around 6.40pm and cleared immigration and customs - no forms to fill out or anything, just a passport stamp. Easy directions to our hotel shuttle and we were driven about 5 mins to the hotel. So did not see much of the area in the dark.
Lovely hotel, and once showered and refreshed we went down to dinner. Very nice buffet meal. After that it was time to try and sleep. Had a few hours of sleep - 10 hours behind NZ so we would normally have been awake at the time we were trying to sleep. It was/is certainly nice and quiet, even though we can see the airport runway from our window.
We are looking out to see if we can see Amy and Jeromé arriving as they are due to arrive now.
Have just had a call to say our shuttle is waiting to take us to the game park, so are setting off on our adventure!