Our Trip to Australia - - the beginning

Amanda has wanted to go to Australia for a long time. We decided to make it a family vacation after she graduated. Austin was invited, but he made a grown-up decision and decided to stay home and focus on his college classes for summer semester. If he went on the trip, he would miss the first two weeks and when the semester is only 8 weeks - - he would miss a pretty big chunk. The conciliation price was that he got to take care of Rylie! What fun!

Our adventure began on Saturday, May 26th. The plan was to fly from Atlanta to Dallas, TX to Brisbane, Australia, and to Cairns, Australia. A couple of hours before we were to leave for the airport, we get a phone call from the airlines. Our flight from Dallas to Brisbane had been cancelled and we were being re-routed. Our journey would be from Atlanta to Chicago to Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, and then to Cairns. We were happily upgraded to premium economy for the overseas leg of the flight. AND we needed to leave as soon as we hung up the phone. Fortunately, we were already packed and ready to go. Amanda and I took our Dramamine. Austin drove us to the airport and off we went. It was an incredibly long trip.

In the Sydney airport, we saw Krispy Kreme! We were shocked at the prices.

So . . . we left Atlanta around 1 PM on Saturday, May 26th, crossed the international date line, and arrived at our villa in Cairns around 6 PM on Monday, May 28th. It was a long trip.