Here.We.Go

Finally at the airport, we hustled to get our many bags out of the car and get out of the way. Luckily we had just enough for about one bag per person. We had six checked bags altogether and a carry on plus a personal item each. We checked our bags then waited with our families before we had to go to through customs. I am so thankful we had as much family there as we did! We love you guys and thank you so much for being so a great support!

Next step is going through customs, which wouldn’t have been so bad if someone “Bryon” hadn’t scared us all and almost lost the tickets!!! Yes, we got all the way to the table and he looked at me and asked me to give him the tickets. I looked at him and said, “you were the on that had them last”… so then we panicked… I looked all through my purse and he looked in his bag, nothing. Then we went back to the seats we were sitting in when we were with our family. Searching around the edges of the cushions, nothing. Bryon starts pulling the cushions off the chairs and at the last minute he found them! Out of all the places they could have ended up, they were underneath the cushions of the chair he was sitting in. Luckily it made for a good break from all the crying going on, to just laugh about it, after we found the tickets of course!!

We are now on the plane, it’s my first time flying and I’m not even sitting with my husband, well not directly beside him. We both have aisle seats and he is two seats back, meaning I might end up with a crick in my neck before this is over from looking back at him so much! I have to say this plane looks a lot bigger outside than it feels inside lol. To me it feels like I’m on a cramped coach bus! It has three seats on side and three seats on the other. I suppose I can’t say much because I don’t have anything to compare it to! Let’s say I hope the next one is bigger!           

Our plane was about 25 minutes late which is going to make things interesting for later. When we get to Las Vegas originally we had about an hour to get from one plane to another, now that this one is late we have about 20 minutes to run to the other plane… this should be fun!!! Lol

Our connection flight from Las Vegas to LAX was interesting. We went to the gate and thought that the people waiting there were waiting for the same plane that we were, so we sat down to wait with them! Then they called our names and apparently everyone had already boarded the plane! We got on and after we sat down every single seat was full! Needless to say, we didn’t get to sit together on this plane either. Luckily it only took about 45 minutes to get to LAX!

Well we are finally on the last leg of our journey. This plane is much bigger than the first two. This one has three seats on both sides and three seats in the middle!! It has screens on the back of the seats with a great selection of movies! Luckily we are sitting together on this one; we have three seats to ourselves which is good because it gives us room to spread out a little bit! It has been a very long flight; we will be in the air for a total of 14 hours. Right now we have almost 4 hours left on the plane, we will arrive in Sydney at 5:56 AM. Unfortunately this poses another problem, we cannot check into our hotel until one o’clock, which means we have a lot of time at the airport to do pretty much nothing! We also wanted to try to rent a car for the first week we were there, then we realized while we were still in the states that that were not going to be able to do that.  Therefore we are going to have to have a very expensive taxi or shuttle take us to our hotel form the airport!

Ok, almost there…

Sydney, Australia  

Here.We.Come!!!