Monday, July 2, 2012

Plane/Sydney/Perth

I had woken up from an about 4 hour sleep. I was still tired. It was still dark outside; I had no idea, what time it was where the plane was. It was around 6:00 am in LA, and around 11:00 pm in Sydney. I played Bejewelled deluxe 2 for about half an hour, and then I fell back asleep on Jasmin for about 2 hours. When I woke up, it was still dark outside. We were about ¾ of the way there. I played a few games, after I got tired of staring at the TV screen for awhile I leaned back, and glanced out the window. I saw the first glimpse of dawn, a little pink on the horizon.


My dad (who was sitting in the window seat) took my iPod, and took a few pictures (including the one above). I played Tetris for some time, tried to see if the boys wanted to play against me, because you could connect to other peoples TV’s and play games against them. They didn’t want to play though. For breakfast I had scrambled eggs, tea, orange juice, fruit, and yogurt. Then I played Bejewelled deluxe 2 again. I did the puzzle mode, used a lot of hints, and finished it completely just an hour before we landed in Sydney.

When we were landing, I put the Skycam on, and I continuously said “We’re losing altitude!” To Jasmin, she got really bugged by that. When we landed, we had made an accomplishment; we had finally made it to The Land Down Under!

Because our flight was delayed, we missed our transfer flight to Perth, and everybody else missed their transfer flights to wherever. A Passenger Announcement told everybody, which flight they were switched to, except we were told which flight we were switched to.

When we got off the plane, we asked around to find out which flight we were put on, it also seems like we weren’t the only people who had missed the flight to Perth. After getting the information about our flight, we went through customs, snooped around a store, and went through security. On the other side of security, there was a bus stop. We had to take a bus to the domestic airport; we were still in the international airport. The bus drove on the tarmac to the domestic airport, there were some luggage on the round, where they had fallen off the luggage car, and it was good thing that it wasn’t ours.

Our plane was scheduled to leave at 10:10 AM, which was the same time that the A380 was supposed to leave, but at night. This plane was an A330, and it was only a 5 hour flight. The TV’s were much smaller. On the plane I finished watching We Bought a Zoo, and I watched The Hunger Games. For lunch I had Beef, polenta, juice, water, and a chocolate. I played Tetris, and a whole bunch of other games, for about an hour before the plane landed.         

Then FINALLY, the plane landed! We had finally made it to our final destination.
(We are the blue dot)
I was glad that I didn’t have to sit on anymore airplanes! We were greeted by our great aunt and great uncle. While Dad, Ben, and our great uncle claimed out baggage we Jasmin, Mom, Lukas, our great aunt, and I were on way to our great aunt, and great uncle’s house. As we pulled into the driveway, Lukas and I spotted the park across the street. We couldn’t wait to go and run around there.

We hopped out of the car, dropped our bags off at the house, and ran to the park. The park turned out to be a bike park. Lukas and I ran around on the structures. There were tons of trees to climb. There was a play structure in the way back, Lukas and I pretended we were monkeys and we climbed all over it. When the rental car with Ben, Dad, and our great uncle pulled into the driveway, I hoisted Lukas into a tree, and climbed in after him. Ben ran over to the park, he asked how we got up into the tree, we said we climbed.

After a while we got bored, so we went back to the house. We played around in the backyard. There was a Caster Board, which is two boards with a handle in the middle on wheels, and you had to move and balance on it. Then I took a bike to the bike park, and rode around on the obstacles. After biking, I learned how to play backgammon.


Our second cousins came, Maddie, Bella, Jordan, Carl, Charlotte, and Alicia. We played on our iPods, and had dinner. After dinner, because it was Carl’s birthday we had some cake for dessert. It was cheesecake, with Jell-o on top. Then I played on my iPod and tried to refrain from falling asleep. At 8:00 I couldn’t help it anymore, and I went to bed.    

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