Day 71 - Home!!

Well I don't really know if it should be Day 71 or 72 as we lost half a day coming over the International Date Line! The flight from LA to Sydney was long (almost 15 hours) but not too bad considering. The chairs recline right back so you can actually get to sleep. The kids slept for most of the night- Caitlin and Josh were too tired to even wake up for dinner, Kaleb was awake but too tired to eat. I had Kaleb asleep on top of me for a long time which made it hard to sleep but after he moved I must have had quite a good sleep too, I only managed one movie on the whole flight!

We arrived a few minutes late into Sydney which was a bit stressful as we only had 90 minutes between to make our connecting flight. We raced to get our bags and waited and waited.... By the time we got through customs and over to domestic transfer our flight had closed. Luckily there was another only about an hour later so we didn't have too long to wait.

Managed to watch two movies on the Sydney to Perth leg! Arrived in Perth and walked through arrivals saying to Kaleb, 'wouldn't it be nice if just once there was someone to meet us at the airport'. We walked through the doors and there was Rachel and Susan!!! And balloons!!  It was so good to see them and lovely to have familiar faces welcoming us home.
  

Back home and the house looks fantastic thanks to our amazing housesitter, Deb!  The animals are almost cuddled to death by the kids they are so happy to see them.

Kids were all asleep by 4pm as I unpacked and started washing.

 

By 7pm Ian had joined them. I'm still going with the washing and getting ready for work tomorrow. Not bad considering it is now 11.30am Miami time and I haven't slept!! Back to reality! 😥

Until next time........