We finally come to our last day in Australia. We had more pastries from Bread Top for breakfast and went through Paddy's Market again briefly. We finished eating our blueberry pastry at Hyde Park, close to our hotel. It was a nice morning to walk through the park and relax. We were supposed to check out of our hotel at 10:00 in the morning, but we were able to ask for an extension until 11. Our flight wasn't until 2:00 in the afternoon, so we wanted to drag around our luggage for as little time as possible.

We finished packing our suitcases and took everything to Hyde park to hang out for about another hour. We saw some guy in the park blowing really big bubbles, which was cool to watch. We wish we could have done more and stayed longer, but we made ourselves get on the train to go to the airport around noon.

There wasn't much to eat in the airport. We ended up sharing a big piece of overpriced pepperoni pizza for lunch. We got our passports stamped again when we went through security to leave Australia (which was really cool - we have one stamp for when we arrived in Melbourne and one for when we left Sydney) and stood around in the terminal for quite a while waiting for the plane to be ready. It boarded about 30 minutes late and we finally took off around 3:00 on October 10th.

I don't remember much about the flight back, except that I didn't like the food as much. It was also much more difficult to sleep on the flight back for some reason. I only slept 2-3 hours during the entire 13 hour flight back to Los Angeles. We also had seats on the left side of the plane, but thankfully the person sitting in the window seat only got up twice, so that wasn't too inconvenient. I did watch a few movies, including Australia with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, two Australia natives, and The Duchess.

We landed in Los Angeles on time, at 10am, also on October 10th, the same day as when we left because we crossed the international date line. We had about 2 hours to get through customs and security in the domestic terminal. Our flight left for Seattle at 12:30pm and we landed around 3. It didn't take long for us to get our luggage, thankfully it made it with us. We road Link Light Rail back to downtown and transferred to the 70 bus that takes us within a block of our apartment.

Man, were we tired. We hadn't gotten much sleep during the flights and had basically been awake for more than 24 hours. We actually put away a lot of stuff, did some laundry, and ordered a Pagliacci pizza for dinner.

Visiting Australia was one of the best things Troy and I have ever done. We wish we could have spent even more time there, because 2 weeks just isn't enough time. Hopefully we'll be able to go back some day.