Shell Bells

So today is our last day in Sydney. Been so awesome being here!! We both love this city a lot. We are heading down to Canberra tomorrow on a bus and are staying there for one night then up to the hill for the season Yay!!! Will be nice to be in one place for longer than 3 or 4 days. We've been mostly just chillin since our last blog entry. I hurt my foot (my own fault really - walking mega distances in my bloody flip flops) so just been trying to take it easy....feeling mostly better now though. Yesterday we stumbled on this square about a 10 min walk from our hotel with free wireless and it's so so so much faster than the McD's connections we've been using! And while Ben was doing ... read more

So we've discovered McDonald's free internet!! Decided to take a few hours this morning and update the blog and book some buses and hotels. DAY 1-ish - flying, waiting, flying, waiting some more.... basically describes our trip to get over here. The wait in LA was pretty brutal. Spent 9 long hours there. Think the Australia flights are in the most desolate part of that airport. Van airport was way nicer!! We mostly took turns sleeping on the floor while the other person tried to stay awake and watch our bags. The plane over here was pretty big and awesome!! Had the full 3 seats to ourselves so that helped.... but a long long flight!! We got here and weren't able to check into the hotel until noon.... so we wandered around Hyde Park for 3+ ... read more

So we made it to LA. Such a long wait still.... been here for 4 hours - 5 to go . No free wireless here... bastards!! I just got a starbucks... 3 coffees and counting today. Not bad considering we slept for less than 3 hours last night (well this morning really) and have been in airports since 5 am. Actually pretty conservative compared to my usual caffeine consumption in a 12 hour day shift! Van is a way nicer airport... or at least compared to the part of LAX we've been confined to. One awesome thing... we landed here at 1:15 and were banking on having to lug our weighty bags around until 3 hours before departure... we took a chance and were first in line at the VAustralia counter at 2:30 when they opened ... read more

The 1 day mark is finally here!!! This is crazy... It honestly doesn't feel real yet. Don't think it will until we're sitting on the plane getting ready to take off. For now it just feels like a couple week vacation So I'm going to give this blogging a go... thanks Amy for setting it up for me. Not sure if I'll be able to figure out all the ins and outs of this thing.... but we'll see! I'm off to pack... which is turning into a much harder task than I thought!! S ... read more