I got to the airport in one piece! Lol! J I was checking my bags only to find out that one of them was overweight by about 7 pounds! When I was frantically trying to rearrange items the lady told me my flight had been switched from Detroit to Dallas to LAX instead of Detroit to Chicago to LA. So instead of leaving MI at 1pm I left at 11:30 AM. The lady said God bless you for being early! The flight from Detroit to Dallas was smooth except the minor annoyance caused by the constant jabbering of the lady across the aisle from me. :/ From Dallas to LA I sat next to a member of the Texas Chorus Girls traveling choir. She had an intense fear of flying so that flight was interesting to say the least! I had a long layover in LAX, so I mostly read Persuasion and ignored people. After flying so much I was not feeling very social. When it was almost time to begin boarding our carry-ons needed to be weighed and lucky me, mine was too heavy. Even after taking out my laptop it was too heavy and so had to be checked and I held onto my laptop in a nifty red and blue plaid bag.
Around the time the gate was getting full I finished my book and started talking to some of the people coming on the same trip with me. There wasn't too much to say seeing as we were all tired from travel already and were not looking forward to an even longer flight. I was surprised at how quickly that flight went! They boarded the back of the plane first (smart huh?). I got the window seat and was asleep before take-off and then the very nice older couple beside me woke me up for dinner (it was actually decent) and then I tried to watch some movies but I fell asleep again in the beginning of Invictus. I talked to the couple from Brisbane over breakfast and then finished The Book of Eli. When we got into Brisbane the line for customs was really long but moved fairly quickly. Security was another story! It took us forever to get through for our connection to Cairns. There was a massive line to go through and all of us had passenger cards that did not "clear." My bags had to be dog sniffed and then searched! Because of this delay by the K-9 unit I lost the group and so I had no idea where to go to recheck my bags for Cairns. Luckily most of the people in Australia are very helpful.
The flight from Brisbane (Brizzy) to Cairns was about 2 hours. The way to baggage claim was an interesting hike because they are reconstructing the airport. Finally we were able to load the buses and head off for our hostel. My AustraLearn group was 53 students when all of the flights made it in. Serpents Hostel Bar and Resort was a madhouse trying to get everyone's stuff upstairs to the rooms! I had to take 2 trips to get my 3 bags up to the 3rd floor. Once my stuff was settled I went for a walk with a girl I had met in the airport (Holly) and took pictures of the area. We found the beach, but you can't really call it that because it was mostly mud. We were told it is nicer in the Summer (its winter here now).
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