First leg of the trip

We're scheduled to leave the Sunshine Coast tomorrow, so our first leg is almost up. We've spent all of the time here just spending time with my Dad. This is Dustin's fourth visit to this area, so there wasn't anything touristy planned.

Our flight from LA was turbulent the whole trip. I've never had such a bad flight. And it took us over an hour to land in Sydney because of the high winds (runway was changed five times!). When we landed, we were told that because of the winds, Sydney Airport was down to one runway only. Amazing. We arrived in Queensland, though, with no problems at all.

Someone observed that all of my "things to do when I get home" were food-related. That is truly what I've missed most about being away from Australia. Culinary highlights so far have been fish and chips from the fishermans' co-op by the river, cheesymite scrolls, Farmers Union Iced Coffee, lamingtons, Tim Tams, Lift and Solo (for some reason, America doesn't have lemon squash which we'd think would be extremely popular over there). We still haven't been to a pie shop, but I think that's planned for tomorrow...

Dustin went surfing with my brother on the weekend, which was something he was really looking forward to doing. I did the typical chick thing and stayed on the beach.

We fly out to Darwin tomorrow, for the second leg of our trip. We'll be spending a week and a half in the Northern Territory, which is something we're both really excited about. As nice as it's been to spend time here, we've been here so many times before. We're looking forward to seeing new sights!

Stay tuned for further updates...