Feb 2007

The last day before travel was full of excitement. It was a sunny day so the outlook started off great. The house painters came out, the appliance delivery folks arrived, the dishwasher and new faucet were installed, softball practice went off alll without a hitch. Guess it's time to pack now...

It rained all night....Then, only hours before we are due to head for the airport I find that I don't have the proper connection for my dive gear! A call to my local dive folks got me fixed in just minutes and all was good.

We have made the first leg of the journey just fine. We are now checked in and waiting for the LA-Syndey leg. As as reminder when we checked in with Quantas the gate attendant said "they serve dinner and breakfast on the flight and free drinks for the duration of the flight so eat too much in the airport. Ya gotta like that.

We are now less than 48 hours away from heading down under. We have made huge progress and things just keep falling our way. We are mostly packed and all the planning has made things work out will less stress and worry then trying to figure it all out at the last minute.

Every person we come into contract with that has been to Australia has only glowing comments about the place so we are even more excited then ever to get there and experience all the great sites and experiences that await us.

We still have about 24 hours of plane travel ahead before we get to 'relax' but it still beats a good day at the office!

As I spend this week at a techinical conference and next week I travel for work it seems the days are getting longer and the list of things I need to do keeps growing! ;-)

All travel plans seem to be in place. I am getting some...but would always welcome more, suggestions on things to do and see when in the Land of Oz. There seems to be a variety of choices and I really want to make sure we see the important, memorable sites. Diving the Great Barrier Reef sounds like fun but where to start? There seems to be so many great places to dive. And where to eat? Cairns doesn't seem too but but once we get to Sydney I want to find the 'hot' spots to eat.

I think the packing list for clothes, dive and photo gear is close to complete. We have all the travel docs, passport, visa, plane/hotel and even Australian $$$ all ready...I just hope I haven't missed anything.

The in-laws arrive the day after I get home from my next trip and we leave two days after that.

Can't wait....