Well, it is official. I've booked the airline tickets for a trip to Australia. I get to go down under to visit my honey. Hopefully by the time I get there it will be a one-way trip, but I do have a returned flight booked just in case. I am traveling down with my Mom. This should be pretty exciting for her as she has never left the country before (except for a couple of the northern United States).
We leave Edmonton the afternoon of June 4th and arrive in Brisbane the morning of June 6th. We do loose a day to the International Date Line, so that isn't as quite bad as it sounds. It is about 22 hours and 9800km of flying though. The flight down connects through Denver, Los Angeles and Auckland before arriving in Brisbane. We booked the trip to coincide with the end of Barb's mid term exams and her three week winter break.
Once we get there, Mom wants to diving in the Great Barrier Reef and whale watching. Since she's almost 70 and has just flown for 22 hours, she gets to do whatever she wants. We are going to go back to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary again and maybe the Australia Zoo. We don't have much of the trip planned yet. My main reason for going is to see Barb. So basically we will go see whatever Mom wants.
To return, we leave Brisbane on the 22nd and fly to New Zealand. We planned to stay a few days on the North Island, see the sights and then leave from Auckland on the morning of the 28th. If the Australia Immigration department has played nice with me, Barb & I will send Mom off for the long flight back to Vancouver and Edmonton. Then we will fly back to Brisbane. If the visa hasn't come through, I will be flying back with Mom and Barb will fly back to Brisbane by herself. Due to the Date Line again, we will arrive in Edmonton six minutes before we leave Auckland. We actually arrive in Vancouver six hours before we leave Auckland.
For all you airplane geeks out there the following flights are on the following planes:
That's about all for now. God bless.
Rob
We leave Edmonton the afternoon of June 4th and arrive in Brisbane the morning of June 6th. We do loose a day to the International Date Line, so that isn't as quite bad as it sounds. It is about 22 hours and 9800km of flying though. The flight down connects through Denver, Los Angeles and Auckland before arriving in Brisbane. We booked the trip to coincide with the end of Barb's mid term exams and her three week winter break.
Once we get there, Mom wants to diving in the Great Barrier Reef and whale watching. Since she's almost 70 and has just flown for 22 hours, she gets to do whatever she wants. We are going to go back to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary again and maybe the Australia Zoo. We don't have much of the trip planned yet. My main reason for going is to see Barb. So basically we will go see whatever Mom wants.
To return, we leave Brisbane on the 22nd and fly to New Zealand. We planned to stay a few days on the North Island, see the sights and then leave from Auckland on the morning of the 28th. If the Australia Immigration department has played nice with me, Barb & I will send Mom off for the long flight back to Vancouver and Edmonton. Then we will fly back to Brisbane. If the visa hasn't come through, I will be flying back with Mom and Barb will fly back to Brisbane by herself. Due to the Date Line again, we will arrive in Edmonton six minutes before we leave Auckland. We actually arrive in Vancouver six hours before we leave Auckland.
For all you airplane geeks out there the following flights are on the following planes:
In other news, I have just one week left at Panasonic. Apparently all our customers should be getting letter soon stating that CBS (link) has taken over the business and the Panasonic branch will no longer be around. Dan and Lorie have been pulling out their hair trying to get things closed down. All our copier stock is slowly making it's way to either the Richmond or Toronto office. Tomorrow we are having a pizza lunch. We have some money in our social fund that we have to burn through before the end of next week. It will be an odd ending to job; half the staff is moving to the new company, I'll have the same customers and machines, the same paycheck but with a new logo in the corner. I also have about 80% of my box of business cards left. If any body wants one of may business cards, just contact me :-).
That's about all for now. God bless.
Rob
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