We left home at around 11am on Thursday 18th April and dropped our little Mazda at Deanne's. Deanne and Daniel then drove us to Albury Airport. when we were nearly there, John realised that he had left his phone in the Mazda, which Deanne kindly went to retrieve. Thank you.
Janene, Ness & Laura & Cathy were already there, having coffee, and we were lucky to say goodbye to Janene before she boarded her flight to Brisbane, before heading back to Sweden. Deanne and Daniel then joined us after collecting John's phone.
The flight to Sydney was very quick, only 1 hr, so we had time to relax before Chris collected us for a lovely dinner at Brighton Le Sands.
Friday was an early morning (I hate early mornings!!), we left the hotel at 7.15am, and even then the traffic around the airport was horrendous. The check in at Sydney was very busy and unfortunately, not well organised.
Our flight to LA was QF17, on a Boeing 787, which left just over 40 mins late was very comfortable, and service and food was great, but we didn’t manage to get much sleep. Arrival into LA, was 30mins earlier than expected, and getting through customs and security was a breeze - not what we expected. I have an assistance on flight booking, and LA worked like clockwork - very different to Sydney, which was disorganised to.
We had about a 5 hr layover in LA before our flight to Miami, which was good.
The flight to Miami was on a Neo A321, American Airlines, overbooked !!
Arrival into Miami 4hrs 30 mins later at approximately 8pm (local time) at which point we had been travelling for 24 hours since departing Sydney.
We caught a cab from the airport to the hotel, which was quite close, but the airport is so big and the fare was $28 before we actually cleared the airport !!
Both exhausted, were showered and fell into bed.
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