Once again, the alarm went off way too early. The fact that I’m going until so late every night is the real killer. But we’re getting there…

I caught a 7.15 bus to the airport, where I met up with Brett, and we got checked in. His bag was way over, but mine was way under, so it all evened out with no excess baggage charges. So that was quite smooth. After a drink and an enjoyable sit down and rest at the airport, we finally boarded our plane about 25 minutes late (well, 15 hours late, really!). Exit row seats helped a lot. I fell asleep pretty quickly, and woke up while we were taxi-ing out to the runway – a process that takes about 15 minutes!

I ate food on the plane, and Brett and I had a couple of drinks to discuss Datascore plans some more. Don’t know if we remember what we discussed – hopefully it will come back to us when our minds are a bit clearer, and we have paper with us to write it down and plan things properly. Then it was back to sleep. I don’t think I’ve slept so much on a plane before.

I woke up and had a drink while watching “The Hangover II”. I think I slept some more, and then had a couple of drinks before landing. There we found details of what Qantas were doing to look after us after the inconvenience. We went through immigration and got on the shuttle bus to the hotel in Sydney. We each had great rooms. They were large, with king sized beds, and very clean. We dealt with a couple of Sportskeep issues that had been lingering for a while – as they were in Perth, we took advantage of the time difference. That was a relief.

We then wanted a drink, so went downstairs. Unfortunately the bar was closed. So it was back up to my room and raid the mini bar. We ate some pringles and had a few drinks and thought more about our week in Japan, and eventually called it a night.