A long, long day it was

This begins my travel blog from Australia. Yes, we made it, but it was one long, long day. We left the house around 1 p.m. to meet the youngest who was on his way in from Roatan. We dropped our bags and headed to meet him for a quick hug before he and his diving buds headed to the house. Then it was off to wait for our flight to LALA land. We arrived to one dead LAX airport. It's weird. Apparently LAX operates on a busy schedule early in the morning and very late. We arrived around 6 p.m. Most stuff wasn't even open but by the time it was time to go to our Quantas gate around 9 the place was hoppin. Getting more than 300 people on board a completely full 747 takes some time. I was certain Elvis was on the plane. This guy had a jet black comb up and over glued down with some sort of industrial glue, well needless to say it was a sight. Not a bad experience flying 14.5 hours to Sydney. We made it pretty well. I thought it would be worse but all in all it was ok. Took the airport shuttle to the hotel arriving there around 10 a.m. feeling pretty wiped out though. Our room wasnt ready, of course so we headed out to see our part of town, right down town Sydney. It is beautiful. After a couple of hours and making some afternoon plans, we got really weary and headed back to the hotel. Our room now ready, we showered after I have no idea how many hours and took a 3 hour nap. The evening we spent just wondering around downtown Sydney, the Harbor area. Our room looks out on the Harbor. Just a block from where we are you can see the Opera House, and a bridge you see in all the pictures. So far, so good, no great. Well, its 10 p.m. here Monday, sometime very early Monday morning there. Signing off from down under in Sydney.

G'day mates and maties, de & ke