We left the house at 6.00 in the morning, to get to the airport nice and early.  One of our bags was overweight, but the new airline policy means they no longer look at combined weight – it’s weight per bag.  So we had bags weighing 23, 22 and 26 Kg, and the signs weighed 14kg.  Even though we had bought 4x23kg bags, we had to pay excess baggage of $40!  On the plus side, she gave us exit row seats for the flight, so we didn’t argue.

We had a relaxed breakfast at the airport.  It was good to sit down before an early morning flight and eat for a change!  We then flew out to Brisbane, where I caught up on emails from the morning and we had a cold drink.  After an hour or so, we boarded our flight to Townsville, eating a snack en route.

We (somehow) managed to get all of our bags into our little Hyundai Getz.  Luckily we had a 4 door model or we would’ve been up the creek!  We asked for an upgrade, but they didn’t have anything else there.  So in the beautiful 27 degrees, we drove to Jupiters Casino – our hotel for the next 4 nights.

Once we checked in and admired our room, we decided to go out to the stadium and see what we were in for.  We walked around and assessed their hardware and networking, and mentally formulated a plan of attack.  From speaking to a couple of people, it seemed there were 2 faulty touch screens, but their other hardware seemed to be OK.  So we went back to the hotel.

We had dinner at the restaurant in the Casino.  It wasn’t anything great – they had a buffet with lots of King Prawns, but they weren’t fantastic.  After dinner we went to the room and watched TV over a couple of drinks.