Bright Ideas: Day 1: Planes, trains, and automobiles

I'm a bit behind but things have been a little busy for us thus far. I wanted to hurry up and post about the traveling because so many of you have asked already. I left Jacksonville around 3pm on Monday and went first to Houston and then on to Los Angeles. Bren met me in LA at around 8ish Pacific time and we went to the United Club (a fancy room for people who have United credit card - which Brendan does). We boarded the international flight around 10 and were quite tired by that point (it was now 1am EST). The international plane was a double-decker and we hit the jackpot when our third row mate changed seats and we got the entire row to ourselves! We stayed up for dinner and then passed out around 2am. We were able to sleep for about 8 hours off-and-on but probably woke up every 2 hrs to switch positions. The benefits of being short were reaped again when I was able to lay flat across all the seats. When we woke up we watched a few movies, I did a few logic puzzles, and then ate breakfast. We arrived in Sydney around 6:30am on Wednesday (about 4:30pm Tuesday US time) and had to get off and back on before heading to Melbourne. once in Melbourne we had to get our bags and go through customs. Given all the hubbub about my visa Brendan was convinced that they would ask me several questions but they didn't ask a single one. We took the Skybus to our hotel and decided to walk around for a bit. At around 3pm I was feeling a bit tired so we decided to take a nap. That nap turned into our evening sleep and we didn't wake up until 4am the next morning. We've been busy since then, most posts to come!

Our pre-14 hour flight picture.