Finally in Sydney

After 2 days of travel, we are finally in Sydney. We arrived at the Colorado Springs airport on Wednesday at 2:30pm. We traveled to LAX and had a 5 hour layover before boarding our flight to Sydney on Wednesday evening at 10:30pm - LA time. We boarded the flight on time and Kevin and I both crashed. Much to our surprise, the plane was having mechanical problems and while we slept for 4 hours, our plane sat at the gate! That is right, we sat on the plane for 4 hours to find out that the flight would be delayed for 24 hours. The whole flight was deplaned at 2:30am and everyone was given hotel vouchers. We lucked out and got a voucher for 2 nights - even though we only needed one, but this gave us the option of staying in the room until 8pm the following day, since the flight again did not leave until 10pm. We got to the hotel around 3:30am and went straight to bed. We spent the entire day at the hotel and went to the airport around 8. We boarded the delayed flight on Thursday evening and took off! The flight time was about 14 hours and we landed in Sydney on Saturday - Colorado's Friday - morning at 6:30am. We were fortunate enough to get a hotel room right away so we went to the hotel and showered and are now on our way to the ship! 

Anyway, long story short, it took longer to get here than planned, but we made it safely. We have not seen much yet, but I am very excited to be here! I will try to post some pictures later today.