Long Journey

We made it - frazzled round the edges, but can't really complain.

Dirty Boy

Had an easy (but very rainy) journey to Manchester airport, whizzed through baggage check in, passport control etc, even had a good quality lunch at a pub by the gates. Someone got very messy here - and it wasn't Tom!

We boarded our first A380 and were very pleased with the room - extra wide seats, huge individual screens. Unfortunately it was full so no spare seats for Tom. The 7 hour flight to Dubai was event free and we arrived on time.

We then had 2 hours at Dubai - where Tom went nuts running laps around the seating area - travelling up and down the moving walkways, in fact he was a bit of a trend setter - there were 3 of them doing it at the end. Still it tired him out as he fell asleep almost immediately on the second flight. Luckily the second flight wasn't completely full and we managed to convince the guy sat next to us that he would be better off sat somewhere else. This meant that we had a spare seat and Tom was able to lay down. Matt and I of course didn't do so well - I managed the odd 10 mins / half hour whilst Matt managed about 3 hours.

Sleeping (jealous!)

After 6 hours we woke Tom up and spent the rest of the 12 hour flight entertaining him - this is a time when a liking of the television would be good. I tried to get him to watch something, but had limited success - he managed 30 mins of Monsters Inc, 10 mins of Cars, and only 5 mins of Mary Poppins. In the end I gave up, and we reverted to Lego, drawing, stickers etc.

We arrived into Sydney early - Lindsey & Stuart were only just arriving as we came through 'the door'. We then headed straight outside to get a taxi. My Australian weather curse still seems to be with me - it was raining and 10 degrees - although I
welcomed it as we hadn't experienced fresh air for 24 hours.

Got to Lindsey & Stuart's in Manly around 11.30pm and after a quick show round had showers and straight to bed - you would think we would go straight to sleep - nope! Jet lag is a weird creature. Finally got to sleep around 1, only to wake with a ding at 2.30am convinced that we'd had about 6 hours sleep and were ready to get up. Took a while, but we got off again and woke up around 5. Tom did better - but even he had trouble sleeping in the middle of the night - as he said in an incredulous voice, "I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep!" He was well behaved though because he didn't wake us up (we are in the same room)

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Location:Manly, NSW