We arrived in Cairns, Australia, after 44 hours of not altogether pleasant travel (Guatemala City, Dallas, Los Angeles -whoops, delay-, Brisbane - whoops, missed plane - Cairns - WHEW). But, as I kept reminding myself, it was FREE travel so I dare not complain! The first few days were all about getting over jet lag, which, when you think about it, isn’t so bad because you’re only 3 hours off home time, plus one day. The one day makes no difference, so we were quite happy not to feel so dragged down by jet lag. Culture shock, however, was another thing. We had some funny language problems (Lucas kept saying “Si” whenever anyone asked him a question) and of course those Ozzies speak such funny English. We were quite happy to be taking a break from
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