Australia

Our first day in Oz was one filled mostly with transit. Because we did not have a direct flight from Fiji, we spent most of the day en route and in airports. All in all we traveled in 3 countries in one day. On a side note, Air New Zealand is crazy when it comes to meals on flights. We were fed full meals on both of our 3 hour flights. And people think Americans eat to much. I for one have not had much experience with airplane food as American airline companies are to cheap to hand out free headphones let alone any sort of food and while the food on our flights was not 5 star, it was still food and free, so we choked down our meat pies and lamb sandwhiches without too much aignst.

Upon arrival in Australia we again went through customs. From the wisdom gained with the food incident in Fiji I was prepared and had no questionable items. Brooke did however manage to smuggle in a can of peanuts, sunflower seeds and saltene crackers from Fiji (good thing too as she would hae been fined 220$$AUS if caught as she forgot to declare the food items on her entrance card) talk about a rebel.

Once through customs we called our ride and after a bit of struggle manuvering through the Brisbane airport were picked up by Miriam, Liam's mum, in her bright yellow bug (which by the way all of our bags fit in the trunk, not bad eh?). As soon as we got to their home we immediately left for dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant where we 'enjoyed'/tried crab, fish (which was cooked whole, he was staring at me the entire night... yuck) and rice paper wraps. It was really good, both food and company and by the end of the night we were very tired but excited for our adventures yet to be had in Oz.