Le Grand Voyage

Well it was inevitable I guess, we are off!  After a sleepless night, I was up and at’em early. All there was to do was to load up at the given time and take the short ride to Tampa airport and off we go into the wild blue yonder. We had requested wheel chairs per Martha’s advice, and it was great , following an almost flawless check in, here comes an attendant with two wheel chairs. She was pretty hefty, and handled us both with ease. We were left at the gate, and waited for our flight to board, for 2 hours no less.

Our flight was delayed for an hour for weather, but again we were off.

We  were awake for the drink cart, then back to sleep until our approach to Dallas. Again we were met by attendants, and whisked of to Qantas Airlines, which was clear across the airport from American.

    I tried to sleep, and did so in short naps, woke up for a great meal, unexpected as it was, of chicken, rice, salad, and roll, it was great. Do not let anyone tell you that 16 hours is not a long flight, because it is. We arrived at Brisbane at about 4:40, and were picked up

By attendants and dropped off at the security area, short stop there, and back to Qantas. We had only a short hop to Sydney, and after a short time waiting, here we were waiting for a cab, SHORT WAIT.  We taken by cab, $55.00 later, to Eva’s hostel, and started our first day in boomerang land. My back has been bothering me more each day, but we did complete a Hop on Hop off bus tour of the city, and got off at the Opera house. Only one theatre was open, so we opted to go to Bond beach, before giving it up for the day. I needed to have a bite of lunch, and picked out a bread and cheese,/tomato open face sandwich for lunch. Hop on the bus, and back to Eva’s. The mini mart furnished a box of ceral, and milk for dinner, and breakfast, and we turned in early, in hopes of a good night’s sleep. A catastrophy has occurred, as we cannot locate a large portion of our cash. What to do? Well we fumed and fussed all evening, and decided to go through

everything on Wednesday , so we did, and found it all, in an unexpected place, but

we found it, hooray. Now, tomorrow and to the ship, more later.