Checkpoint reporter Nick Truebridge and cameraman Nate McKinnon have the story.
The New Zealand-Cook Islands bubble has been open for three days now, but this morning marked Captain Tama's Lagoon Cruises first new booking.
It is one down and hopefully many more to come, but Antonia Poa was pumped nonetheless.
"Getting into my computer again, I was like what is my username, what is my password? So that took a little while, then my phone rang and I took the booking, and I was like okay where does it go again? 'For how many?'
"But it was like riding a horse again, it's all good again, I'm on to it. We're running the cruise on Friday."