Still can’t believe we’re on our way to Australia, truly a dream come true! Yes, Mya is going to work, but we’re certain there will be opportunities to fit in some fun and hopefully make a lot of new friends.
We about to take off now, its Thursday and with the time change and length of the flight, we won’t arrive in Sydney until Saturday morning, yikes! It’s a new airline called Virgin Australia and it looks really great online. We were lucky to get upgraded to first class and wow, the plane is amazing! There is a fully stocked, serve-yourself bar (this picture was taken just before takeoff and they had removed the bottles for safety).
Our two seats have individual televisions and a privacy curtain that made us feel like we were in our own little bedroom – it was even purple!
We just had an amazing dinner (they even gave us a white tablecloth!) and told us to let them know when we’re ready to go to sleep. We’re watching 127 Hours, what a great movie, but we’re starting to doze so we’d better let them know.
I can’t believe they just brought us “jammies” and once we got into them, we were out for the count. We woke up to a great breakfast and before we knew it we were there!
Our friend Mark picked us up (our plane arrived at 6:05 so we were very grateful for that!) and we headed to the car. 
These Aussie cars are quite interesting. They don’t have steering wheels! My bad, forgot they’re on the other side. Ha Ha! The really weird part was getting used to the traffic driving on the opposite side of the street, at every turn Mya thought Mark was going to have an accident! 
He gave us a wonderful tour of the city, including the Paddington Market where we did some fun shopping, then went to Bondi Beach (Sydney’s most famous) for lunch and laughs with friends.
We finally checked into the hotel and quickly changed clothes to go to the Mardi Gras Parade. We walked around the city at night then stopped for sushi at the Sushi Train. What an interesting concept, you sit at a counter and the sushi dishes revolve around the counter in front of you on a train. You grab what you want and at the end they count how many empty dishes you have to calculate your bill. Neat idea!
There were people everywhere in the streets for the parade (and I do mean everywhere!) By then, we had started to wind down and the idea of standing in a crowd of 500,000 people for 3 hours and walking 45 minutes back to the hotel was a little overwhelming so decided to be wusses and call it a night.
What a great start to this exciting vacation. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings!
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