The flight w-OZ AUS-some!

Wednesday, June 17th 2009: Laura and I woke up at 4:30 in the morning to catch our 7:25 flight from ft Lauderdale to Los Angeles. When we arrived in the LAX airport at 10am western time we were both well rested and ready to explore California for the day. (Our flight to Brisbane was at 11:30pm so we had plenty of time.) Laura’s sister Becky lives in Cali so she kindly picked us up from the airport and showed us around Santa Monica and Venice beach. We had BEAUTIFUL weather and I had a really great day sightseeing. After showing us around, Becky took us back to her boyfriend Franklin’s house where he graciously let us hang out, shower, and most importantly make our pre-flight mojitos with the fresh ingredients we had picked up at the Santa Monica farmers market earlier that day. The whole day made for a great start to our journey and we were excited to continue on to the next leg of our trip!

We had a quick bite to eat at In and Out burger (my first time eating there. YUMMMMM!) on the way to the airport. When we checked in at the counter the guy told us we were two of the last 10 ppl to check in for our flight so he couldn’t seat us together :/ But then he gave us hope by telling us we could ask the worker at the gate check-in counter, and so we did… Not only did we get to sit next to each other, but we also got to sit behind the bulkhead in the middle row which meant we had twice as much leg room as any other seat! WOOHOO! We slept, we ate, we watched a bad/not TOO bad movie (Confessions of a Shopoholic, starring the ever so wonderful Isla Fisher) and the time just FLEW by! ;)
Lookout Oz, here we come!!

(Itinerary thus far and for the upcoming weeks)
Friday, June 19th-24th 2009: Brisbane
Tuesday, June 24th-26th: Mooloolaba
Thursday, June 26th-30th: Noosa
Tuesday, June 30th-??? : Wwoofing in Cooroy/Eumundi
Sunday, July 12th: Coop arrives!! Stay in Gold Coast through 17th
Friday, July 17th-23rd: Cairns, Great Barrier Reef and Cape tribulation w/ coop.

To be continued… [maybe I’ll go back and talk about the places we’ve been so far but for now you can check out Laura’s blog for details: Laurastreitinaustralia.blogspot.com ]

Cheers,
Lindsay