Today was not too exciting. It was mostly about flying from Alice Springs
to Cairns, via Sydney. Looking at a map, you might wonder why we had to fly
so far south to Sydney to get farther north to Cairns. In fact, the man at
the Qantas desk wondered that too, but he was unable to fix the problem as
the flight directly to Cairns was already overbooked. But, before our non-adventures
in flying, we did have a lovely morning in the town of Alice Springs. It has
a very nice shopping district that is a walking plaza. Vienna got to go online
for a while. Andy and I shopped for a didgeridoo. We found a great one that
is now on a "slow boat to California." We are looking forward to
putting it next to our fireplace at home along with the boomerang we picked
up.
The
one downside to this morning was that I left my doggy boxes from our great
and expensive meal last night at Bojangles in our motel room. When I went
back for it only two hours later, they had already thrown it in the "bin."
I was very sad because we had cheese and crackers from "dessert"
- yes that's dessert - and half of a chicken parmesean that was delicious.
Bummer.
Today's flights have been fine but, of course, boring. We're getting to watch
Bridget Jones 2, which is cute and funny. Tonight we will be in Cairns,
Queensland. Tomorrow, we are to go on the Passions of Paradise tour, which
will take us out to the Great Barrier Reef for snorkeling. It should be great
if the weather is good. It hasn't been so nice there recently.