My mistake for the next few blog entries, is that i am writing them 5 days after the fact. I havent had the time or energy to write each night, but now we’re in Port Douglas (North Queensland), and i have a little more down time to fill in the blanks. Today we rose at [ Read More ]
Archive for May, 2007
Today was fairly uneventful. We rose at 6:30, so we could leave to arrive at the airport by 8:00am. Don and Jessie were flying to Brisbane to be picked up by my parents. They are staying in Toowoomba for the next 4 days, while Melody and I flew to Ayers Rock. We will be doing [ Read More ]
Today we set out around 10:30, after a quick breakfast at Hungry Jacks (Burger King for my US friends). We bought ourselves onto the city explorer tour bus line, which is like any other big city tour bus, in that it takes you around to all the major attractions, and has pickups every 15-20 minutes. [ Read More ]
I’m not sure what to call this day, as we spent 14 hours on the plane, skipped Sunday completely and landed on monday morning. The flight went fairly well, except for that Don and Jessie were seated 10 rows away from Melody and I. My guess is that melody and i slept about 6 or [ Read More ]
Day two was pretty uneventful (at least for Don and I). Melody and Jessie took advantage of the amenities here at the Summerfield suites, while Don and I lazed around and watched TV, relaxing as much as possible before the 14 hour flight. We did leave the compound once though, if only to go to [ Read More ]
Well, let’s see how long I can manage to write in this blog while on the trip. The trip started out well enough (hindsight proved that), as we took a good 3.5 hours to get from Banner Elk to Charlotte Airport. Caught in Nascar traffic, we thought we’d be pushing it ot get to the [ Read More ]
