The alarm woke me up about 6.30 this morning. It was not easy getting out of bed – I really needed a few more hours sleep. But no such luxury today.

We got up, and packed the final things in to our bag. It seemed like it may be a bit too heavy (~72 kg total).   I decided we can just deal with it at the airport. We had our last breakfast together with Okasan and Ottosan, and loaded up the car with our 2 suitcases, 2 backpacks, massage table and Kaoru’s handbag, and left the house about 7.30. Ottosan took us to the bus stop.

The first bus didn’t let us on as it was already too full. So we caught the second one (about 10 minutes later – but the last one for 2 hours!). It took us about an hour to get to the airport. Terminal 3 opened a month or two ago (and we’ve never done budget airlines – we’re on Jetstar for this flight) so neither of us had done departures from there before. It was quite easy. Our bags came to exactly 70kg – couldn’t do any better if we had tried!

I had a beer left so enjoyed that at the airport, we went through customs and immigration (submitting the paperwork from yesterdays shopping) and waited for the plane. It boarded on time, and apart from it being 15 minutes of taxi-ing, the flight was normal.

We went through photos on the plane, and deleted all the duplicate and bad ones. Not much else to do when you’re travelling cattle class in a budget airline, with no movies to watch or alcohol to drink! I got a bit of work done until the battery went flat (my power supply was under the plane in my suitcase).

Eventually we landed, no problems with customs and immigration. Brett came and picked us up from the airport, and we went home. Tired, and very happy after an enjoyable holiday.  Don’t know how we’re going to top this one!