Where to begin.....first off I should warn you over the past 3 days I have gotten a total of 6-7 hours of sleep, on top of that I completely lost a day between travel time and time change. My flight from North Carolina to Melbourne, Australia was a total of 30 hours travel time, my flight from NC was delayed, I hate Delta, and I made it to my connection with seconds to spare. I ran through the airport and literally had them stop closing the door so that I can get on the flight. I was able to see my parents on my stopover in LA, and then the Canadians and I got on our 15hr flight to Australia. The flight was over night and due to the time change lost a day. I slept about an hour maybe two during that trip. When we got to Melbourne we spent an hour waiting to go through Customs and then when we got to baggage claim, guess who's luggage was not there!! That's right! After another half hour I found out my luggage is still in America. Luckily they said my bag will arrive tomorrow afternoon, fingers cross it makes the couple connections it has to in order to get to Melbourne. I'm the stupid one that didn't put a change of clothes in my carry on or have travels insurance. Sigh... We landed at 8:40am and didn't leave the airport until 1pm. We have a hire car for a few days and it's quite interesting to watch Mel drive, because it's the opposite side of the car and road than what the USA or Canada are used to. Once we made it to the hostel we wandered around the neighborhood where our hostel is, which we got lost trying to find from the airport. Due to sleep deprivation, we decided to stay in at the hostel and mingle with others staying here. There is a bar downstairs in the hostel, so we are thinking about just going down there, trying to make it til 8pm before crashing for the night. Tomorrow we are going to visit downtown, sight see around Melbourne, possibly go to a wildlife sanctuary, and then are having dinner and a night out on the town with a friend that Mel, Max, and I met in Europe two and a half years ago. Off to force myself to stay awake a few more hours, it's 11:30pm 1/9 EST, it's 6:30pm 1/10 in Melbourne.
Bye for now <3
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