We left the house at 6.00 in the morning, to get to the airport nice and early.\u00a0 One of our bags was overweight, but the new airline policy means they no longer look at combined weight – it’s weight per bag.\u00a0 So we had bags weighing 23, 22 and 26 Kg, and the signs weighed 14kg.\u00a0 Even though we had bought 4x23kg bags, we had to pay excess baggage of $40!\u00a0 On the plus side, she gave us exit row seats for the flight, so we didn’t argue.<\/p>\n
We had a relaxed breakfast at the airport.\u00a0 It was good to sit down before an early morning flight and eat for a change!\u00a0 We then flew out to Brisbane, where I caught up on emails from the morning and we had a cold drink.\u00a0 After an hour or so, we boarded our flight to Townsville, eating a snack en route.<\/p>\n
We (somehow) managed to get all of our bags into our little Hyundai Getz.\u00a0 Luckily we had a 4 door model or we would’ve been up the creek!\u00a0 We asked for an upgrade, but they didn’t have anything else there.\u00a0 So in the beautiful 27 degrees, we drove to Jupiters Casino – our hotel for the next 4 nights.<\/p>\n
Once we checked in and admired our room, we decided to go out to the stadium and see what we were in for.\u00a0 We walked around and assessed their hardware and networking, and mentally formulated a plan of attack.\u00a0 From speaking to a couple of people, it seemed there were 2 faulty touch screens, but their other hardware seemed to be OK.\u00a0 So we went back to the hotel.<\/p>\n
We had dinner at the restaurant in the Casino.\u00a0 It wasn’t anything great – they had a buffet with lots of King Prawns, but they weren’t fantastic.\u00a0 After dinner we went to the room and watched TV over a couple of drinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We left the house at 6.00 in the morning, to get to the airport nice and early.\u00a0 One of our bags was overweight, but the new airline policy means they no longer look at combined weight – it’s weight per bag.\u00a0 So we had bags weighing 23, 22 and 26 Kg, and the signs weighed … Continue reading