I left my luggage, in San Francisco...

TeamGeek
So United was kind enough to put us up in the Embassy Suites hotel. No, wait, let me rephrase that. United put us up in this nice hotel because we completely missed our flight to NZ, thus a full day we were supposed to have in Auckland is gone. So I think it's the least they could do. Missing the connecting flight has had 2 effects:
1) We won't get to see much of Auckland.
2) We won't get to meet some nice people from the Ars Technica message boards who were helping us out.

The upshot to all this is that our room was right on the bay, so we have some nice pictures. Interestingly, the approach for the San Fran airport is over the harbor, so we also go to see some planes coming in for landings, which was pretty cool.

We're off to the airport next to make sure our ticket situation for tonight is squared away, then we'll probably tool around SanFran a bit. Jester is somewhat familiar with the area since he comes out here for work reasons pretty often.

I guess I'd be more excited to check out San Francisco if I wasn't actually supposed to be in New Zealand.

As a side note, I'm glad I purchased some travel insurance. At only 30$, I think it's going to pay for itself. I'm also very concerned our luggage is now having a better vacation then us. It's negative thinking I know, but I have a dreadful feeling that we'll finally get to NZ sans luggage.