We've escaped... with 1 hour sleep!

Hello Australia and goodbye Bali! What a long night we have had. The first selfie from today was taken just after midnight while we sat waiting to find out which gate our flight would leave from. We had a second security check before being allowed to sit in the waiting area for our gate, they're very keen on letting anyone on the flight with water. We boarded our flight late so we didn't depart until 20 minutes after we should do. Sleeping was almost impossible. The seats were uncomfortable and you felt beyond exhausted but almost too exhausted to sleep in a weird way. We tried for 20 minutes or so once the seat belt sign was off and the lights were dimmed but then had a little surprise from the crew of a meal. This flight was organised by STA before we left and we had no idea we'd be getting a meal and very few people had paid the extra for it. It was great though. Not only did we get a mini chicken roast dinner (out first since we've left) but we got a bar of Dairy Milk each to finish it off. A very nice unexpected perk. The flight took about 4.5 hours but I think we both slept for an hour, if that, so we were very sluggish getting off the plane. We were worried about customs and how strict they'd be but we went through with no problems and they didn't even ask for our bags to be scanned or searched which was lovely. We took a minibus to the city which dropped us right at our hostel's door. We thought we'd booked into a dorm room but upon arriving we found out it was actually a twin room we'd booked, much to our delight. We definitely needed the privacy when we'd had such little sleep. We hung around in their common area until our room was ready about an hour later. We got in, drew the curtains and went to sleep. I found it easy to sleep and got 3 hours in the end but unfortunately Nick didn't fair as well and I woke up without him being here and note saying he'd gone to find a shop an hour earlier. He came back pretty quickly after I woke up, water in hand. We showered, which felt amazing, and got ready to head out. We went back to the mall that Nick had visited to hunt for an adapter, ours for Australia is the wrong plug, and to do some food shopping. We have a kitchen here and at most places we stay so we plan to make breakfast, have a packed lunch and then cook dinner each night. For 3 days worth of food we spent what one of us spent alone for dinner tonight so it's well worth doing! We ate rubbish food in the food court and now at 8pm we're calling it a night. No alarms set so hopefully a good nights sleep will sort us out for tomorrow.Read more