Last flight to Cairns

Well we’re finally on our last flight for a longggg time (or 2 days lol) but we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the nice people of Australia…seriously. We were just waiting for the seat-belt sign to go off so we could jump up and grab our stuff and run off the plane…and then the captain said that the airport forgot about our flight coming in so they didn’t have a walkway set up, we arrived ten minutes late but and then the crew on the group directed the captain to the wrong line to pull up to which followed by a sweet machine coming to push our plane a meter so that it would a line up wonderfully.

The lady sitting next me on the overnight flight was uber nice…she started talking to me from the beginning and then when we landed she told us that we had to run and get through customs and collect our baggage because there is only 2 flights that travel to Cairns…and the other one wasn’t leaving until later tonight. The only thing I could think of is shit, we really need to get on that plane!

Ok, so it’s me, Jayme, Princess, and Caty and this nice Australian lady (we’ve decided to call her our flight mum) running through the airport trying to get to where we needed to be… we were waiting in line for a bus and then our flight mum told them what flight we needed to be on and then they pushed us ahead to a A/C orange bus (which was amazing because we all had HUGE pit-stains by this point-gross but its so true) I quickly texted Ben to tell him to tell everyone that we were alive while not paying attention to the crazy bus driving on the LEFT side of the road-I know this is common here but until you see it, you just don’t know how weird it is!…The bus dropped us off at the domestic part of the airport and made it past security. All along the way flight mum was helping us, telling us what we should be doing and going. We got there just in time to use the restroom ( just changed into my flip-flops) and then boarded our next plane…phew! Jayme and I were just joking that if someone was filming us we would have made a hilarious scene for a movie…4 sweaty girls, plus a random stranger we adopted as our flight mum, scrambling for their luggage, crusin’ through customs, jumping on orange busses, cutting in line, just to make it for the next flight! Haha…if you don’t think this is funny then maybe you just had to be here;)

Anyway-So like I said, last flight and we’re all soo pooped…it’s a lotta work traveling across the globe! Princess is from Ohio and Caty is from Arizona so we’ve all done our fair share of traveling in the past couple days. This flight is only 2 hours long and after a 14 hour one I feel like I got this in the bag;) …So I’m trying like hell to stay awake so I decided to use up what was left of my computer battery to “blog” (which on the plane consists of typing on a blank Microsoft document) Well, it looks like it’ll die any minute so I’m gonna get going. I miss home so much that I’m here but find this to be the adventure I needed to finish my degree. Cant wait till I blog next time. Take care and I love you!

Love,

Shar