Thanks Richard, he may well indeed change his ticket on the way home and spend sometime in LA, not sure yet, its five mths away, so anything could change by then.

You are supposed to be coming into summer over there, and you are freezing, yes I did warn him, but I think the cold has been a bit of a shock to him, we have just had a lovely change to nice warm sunny weather in NZ, he will be missing that, and here he was thinking he was leaving the NZ winter behind, lol, oh well it will change soon hopefully.