Let the adventure begin

We started our adventure with an early morning rise to head off to Brisbane Airport for our flight to Darwin. Up at 5.00am, collected Bryd and Tommy and we were Brisbane bound by 6.15am. Poor Macie and Dottie thought they were coming with us when they saw us packing last night, but as soon as we gave them a bone before we left, they soon forgot about coming with us.

There was quite a bit of traffic on our way to the airport and we arrived at 8.30am, said a quick goodbye to Bryd and Tommy before heading indoors. A bit of confusion with the self checkin as it didn’t print my bag tag, only Dave’s. One of the Virgin staff printed it off for me but printed Dave’s again so had to get the baggage people to fix it. All done and we were at our gate at 9.10am. Before we knew it, we were boarded on our 9.50am flight and on our way.

We paid for extra leg room and have to say, there was heaps of room. I had downloaded heaps of episodes of ER so I was set, Dave listened to music and slept. After a quick 4 hrs we had landed and on our way in our uber to our accommodations.

Have to say, I have chosen well again, the room is huge and close to everything.

After we unpacked and Dave had a coffee, we headed off to Woolworths which is 2 blocks over to stock up on food for the next few days before heading back for some relaxation.

About 6.00pm we headed of for a lovely relaxing walk along the esplanade to take in a top end sunset and have to say it didn’t disappoint. We made our way back to the Cavenagh Hotel for dinner before retiring for the night.

Tomorrow we are heading to the Anzac dawn service at the Cenotaph which is about a 5 minute walk from our room.Read more