Leaving the 'ham

I want to say thank you to all of our friends and family that helped us with this move to Australia. Your support and words of encouragement meant the world to both Wes and myself. The month of July was a very busy one as most of you know and we tried to fit ALOT in. Again, many thanks for being there for us.

The long journey began with seven bags to be checked in at the Delta counter in Birmingham. Five of which were overweight and yes, we had to pay extra for those. Good news was we did not have to see those seven bags again until we arrived in Sydney. We then flew from Birmingham to Atlanta, Atlanta to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Sydney and finally Sydney to Brisbane. The flight from Los Angeles to Sydney was full and somehow our seats got messed up and we were not sitting together. The Delta representative at the counter said she would work on this for us. We also mentioned to her that we would use some of our sky miles to upgrade to business if allowed. We got upgraded, hooray!!!! The flight to Sydney is 14 hours and what a difference being in business class makes for this long journey. The down fall to this is now I know what it is like in business class and will want to fly it when we come back to the states. I doubt this happens... We get to Sydney and then have to go to baggage to claim our seven bags. From there, we have to go through customs with the seven bags. One of the seven being Wes' golf bag that he drags behind him. We have nothing to declare except for some of the yummy candy that Meredith gave us for the trip and Wes has to check a box on the form for grass, etc. on his golf shoes. Make note: if you are travelling overseas please clean the bottom of your golf shoes before leaving the states. They took three, yes I said just three of his golf shoes to get cleaned before we could continue our journey. What happened to the fourth shoe, why did it not need to be cleaned?Next we have to get ourselves and our luggage to the other side of the airport to our next flight. We then have to check our luggage in with Quantas and get our boarding passes for Sydney to Brisbane. Finally we arrive in Brisbane, get the car and fill it full of luggage. Twenty minutes later, home sweet home in Bulimba.

Overall, we had a great trip over. Flights were on time, we got upgraded, all the luggage made it and we made it.