3/3/02 Cairns, Austrailia (Kelly)
Today has consisted of cleaning up the van, eating lunch, and lounging under a shaded tree over looking the ocean. I have a journal entry that I have written but we are changing the plans. We were going to check into a hostel, which opens at 3:00 pm and then return the van. But we just figured out that our flight out to Sydney is at 6:05 in the morning so I think we are just going to go sleep in the airport and save on over night expenses. Once we arrive in Sydney, we are staying with Jessie, an American girl who we met in New Zealand. She was so kind to offer her place until we depart to Singapore on the 9th. She is attending school in Sydney as an exchange student so fortunately this allows us to save a little dough!!
Okay, I'm returning to this journal entry because I think this needs to be added...last night, as I mentioned above, we spent the night in the Cairns International Airport. Check out the 'sleeping in airports' website at www.sleepinginairports.net to see the luxury we stayed in. It actually wasn't all that bad. It was air conditioned, had a shower, and little compfy sofa things to sleep on. However, little did we know that our flight to Sydney was located in the international terminal rather than the domestic terminal. At 2:00am there was a police lady that came and awoke all of the sleeping passengers and said that the international terminal was closing and that we needed to move to the domestic terminal. The domestic terminal was about a 10 minute walk across the street. So you can only imagine how we looked in these wee hours of the morning. We had our bags loaded on a little a luggage cart halling everything over. Is this how homeless people look when any major authority makes them move?
Posted by Admin at March 2, 2002 09:13 PM