Holiday plans are slowly getting there

Happy 2012 everyone!
Now that it's this year, the next holiday is feeling like it's a bit more real, and I've finally done the last major booking - the flight home from Los Angeles.
Even though it means a stopover in Auckland, we're going to come home with Air New Zealand. For the flight from Los Angeles to Auckland we've booked a Skycouch - basically the two of us get three seats for only $600 more than the price of two, and these seats are set up so they can be a sort of a bed.  It's not long enough to stretch out on, but it's a guarantee of enough room for just a bit of comfort.  By this time we're going to be really tired and this is the best we can do short of selling the house to fly business class!
So, the final count of countries we'll set foot in is fifteen.  United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and New Zealand are only transit stopovers, but if it's good enough for the Century Club to count airport stopovers, I'm going to count them too  :-)
232 days until we leave!