So my flight from SFO to AKL was nice and uneventful. I even managed to sleep for about 6 hours. The flight landed about 30 minutes early in Auckland, but alas, the connecting flight had some sort of "engineering" problems, and was delayed from a 6:30am departure, past 7:30am, and then the next thing I knew they were handing out bits of paper saying the flight wouldn't be departing until 10pm and we were all getting shuttled off to a hotel for the day.
So I don't really know what happened to the flight, but the same flight number is now departing this evening. Fortunately I didn't have a huge amount to do today in Brisbane (but I have no idea what Nick had intended to do today). I currently estimate I'll get into Brisbane at around 11:30pm tonight.
I've got plenty of reading I was planning on doing on the flight, which I didn't do any of, so I can keep myself occupied. I'm also going to try and catch up with Rowan and Kelly. Oh, and it was good to be able to have a shower. It sure beats sitting around in Auckland International all day.
I think this is the first time I've had a delay like this. The moral of the story? Direct flights, hang the expense!