I wrote this yesterday, but I just figured out my internet so I'm posting it now. :)
It’s 10 am and I’m sitting in the Sydney Airport. I’ve been here for over two hours already, and I’ve hauled my luggage from the United Airlines part of the airport to the Qantas domestic flight section, checked in, and converted my money to Australian dollars ($370 American only got me $325 Australian >:[). My flight from Sydney to Hobart doesn’t board until 1:55 and doesn’t leave until 2:15, so I’m sitting in a café drinking a pineapple orange mango smoothie and writing in my blog. Well, I would be writing in my blog but I can’t connect to the internet. My cell phone doesn’t work either. It’s the weirdest feeling not having any connections; it makes you feel really helpless to not be able to call or text or email someone. For now I’m writing this in a word document, hoping that the time passes quickly. :/
So let’s start at the beginning. I left Rochester yesterday morning (which, thanks to time zones, was really two days ago) and flew into Chicago with my mom. She then went on to Los Angeles to see her brother, and I had to wait around for forever until my own flight from Los Angeles left. I was waiting at my gate and I heard a few girls my age talking about Australia, so I joined in the conversation and it turned out that there were five of us sitting at the Los Angeles gate all going to Australia! Two of the people going to Australia were from Sydney and Melbourne (pronounced Mel-bin, they look at you funny if you say Mel-born) so we got to ask them a bunch of questions about Australia. So that was cool. Eventually the flight left, we got to Los Angeles after about four hours, and then almost immediately after we got to LA we had to board to go to Sydney.
The Sydney flight was… well actually I have no idea how long it was because of the time change, but it was something like 14 hours. Let me tell you, 14 hours on a plane SUCKS. Especially when there’s no room to put any of your stuff and your seat barely goes back at all and you can’t even stretch your legs out… but at least I had a window seat. Most of the flight was dark, though, because we were basically following the sunset. I was able to sleep for a lot of the ride, so when I was fully awake there were only about six hours still to go. During those six hours they fed us twice and I got to watch the sunrise. It was sooo beautiful.
Of course the best part of the flight was landing in Sydney, but I couldn’t take any pictures while the plane was descending. When we finally broke through the clouds and could finally see Australia, it was amazing how GREEN everything was. Coming from snowy, miserable Rochester and then popping through some clouds to the most gorgeous green country was amazing. I tried to spot the Opera House but of course I couldn’t. haha. So now we’re back at the beginning of the entry… here I am sitting in the Sydney airport. I’ll probably wander around the little shops; I saw one that was selling chocolate koalas! Sadly, I can tell already that everything is INSANELY expensive. :/
My next flight is on a domestic carrier called Qantas and their planes have kangaroos on the tails! I’ll try to get a picture later. My flight to Hobart is only two hours long, so I’m sure that will feel like nothing compared to the LA to Sydney flight. Hopefully I’ll be able to get my wireless sorted out quickly and get this post up! I know this wasn’t the most exciting thing ever, but hey, I’ve been sitting on planes for 24 hours. Surprisingly I’m not tired at all, but I don’t think that means that I’m ready to meet a trillion new people yet. Haha. I need time to get my bearings. But I’m officially in Australia! :)
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| oops. I forgot to take a picture of the Qantas plane. yay stock images! |
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