The end of the trip :(. We had a nice sleep in, and then after a shower, went to a full buffet breakfast in the hotel restaurant. We returned to our room to make sure everything was in our bags, and checked out at 10.00. We caught a shuttle bus to the airport at 10.30. The plane was delayed 20 minutes so we sat down and passed the time before boarding. It was warm outside as we walked to the plane. Our last bit of warmth until summer hits Melbourne.

After taxi-ing out to the runway the pilot got on the system and said we had to go back – there was a problem with the toilets not flushing, and for a 2.5 hour flight that just wouldn’t be comfortable at all. Before turning around we had to wait and watch an USAF C-130 land, which is something you don’t see every day! We didn’t know what would happen now – when would we be able to leave? Luckily the engineers were able to fix it quickly, and within 10 minutes we were taxi-ing back out and this time took off. I watched “Pacific Rim – The Uprising” on my phone for the flight back.

Once we had our bags we caught an Uber home, and were back just after 5.00. Our first real Australian holiday, and what a holiday it was!