Arrival in Sydney, Australia

We made into Sydney around 12:30pm (Sydney time). We were on the same plane that we took from LAX to Fiji. Again had a good flight but we were glad when it was over. Once in Sydney, we had to go through customs (absolutely no food allow through). Luckily we ate all that I had packed. Then get our luggage and went to the rental car place. Brian checked currency conversion. Sydney is better than LAX.

We have an automatic hatch back Toyoda Corolla. Brian realized having the car set up backwards from what we are use to and driving on the left side of the road can be quite a challenge. Our GPS that I rented through the rental car agency is also not that great! Its favorite phrase is “Turn left whenever possible.” It is a GPS. It should know when what streets are coming up! It gives us new appreciation for our Garmin back at home.

It took us twice as long as it should of to get to our hotel. It did not help that the hotel was not easy to find either! I was hoping to get to our hotel around 2:00pm but it was almost 3:30pm after we checked in. I am grateful we are here.

The plan for tonight was to go back downtown and see the city. We are both really tired and need to relax a bit. This trip is like all our others, we want to see and do as much as possible but starting off exhausted is not a good thing.

I knew the flight getting here was going to be terrible. I was dreading it! Part of me could not be excited for this trip because I kept thinking of the flights. Now that we are here, it was not a bad as I was thinking but I am really tired! There really is no room on planes to sleep. Unless you can sleep sitting up, you cannot sleep on a plane. Our flight to Sydney was pretty full. We did not have an extra seat and I was trying to nap and that did not work too well. Good thing we are finally here and the flight home will be a little shorter.

The weather is party sunny around 80. Ever since we left Fiji, we have been hot. Like my last post said, we were in winter clothes so that did not help. We finally took showers. I don’t know if I have ever had the same clothes on the amount of time I did. I felt really disgusting. I am much better now.


Our hotel has a McDonald’s across the street with free WiFi. We are happy about that. The plan for tonight is plan out the next two days here and get some sleep. We will eat dinner at McDonald’s so we can post this entry. I think we are going to Blue Mountains early tomorrow morning and then downtown Sydney in afternoon/evening but we will confirm that later.