June 6, 2012 was the big day!! We headed out from DFW to LAX at 2:00pm which was a pretty short flight, not to mention we were bumped to business class, so that was exciting! Free booze and a pretty great meal to go along with it. Our seats reclined pretty far back and we even had a leg and foot rest... if only we had been so lucky for the rest of the trip !
I was super excited to be in LAX because I just knew I would see someone famous but our terminal was small. I didn't take me long to walk to whole thing and I gave up pretty quickly. They did have a Chili's, so we had our last good American meal :)
From LAX to Sydney was brutal. I think it was a 17 or 15 hr flight and we had NO ROOM. You could barely stretch out your legs and our seats didn't recline much at all. Once I finally fell asleep, the flight attendant woke me up, it was dinner time and the guy behind me need to use his food tray :/ I was not a happy camper. I then decided to go ahead and eat and that was a mistake... the food was nasty. We had some type of chicken and potatoes. I could tell the girl sitting across the aisle from me didn't like it either, she tried to cut her potato and it shot across the aisle and landed at my feet, we had a pretty good laugh about it. I will say they had a good selection of movies and TV. I watched 21 Jump Street, a documentary on Lady Gaga and Kate and Pippa :) Luke luckily fell asleep pretty fast and slept through the gross chicken meal haha. Our breakfast wasn't that tasty either. OOH and I had to conquer my fear of standing up on the plane and using the restroom, wasn't so scary after all :D
Finally we landed in Sydney and it was a mad dash to customs, our flight landed 35 minutes late and that put us in a pickle. The line for customs was long but went pretty fast, we then had to claim our baggage, go through security again and check in our bags again... yep we missed our flight. I guess it turned out alright though, we got to stretch out our legs, walk around, and get some decent food in our system.
The flight from Sydney to Perth was another 5 hrs : / I felt like we had a little more room but not much! I managed to watch We Bought A Zoo and 3 episodes of Revenge. I am now hooked on that show lol Meals however were not any better lol Qantas needs to make some improvements !!
FINALLY WE LAND IN PERTH!! Luke's HR managers Tess and Nick picked us up and took us to lunch. They were extremely nice, took us to our apartment, and then Tess showed us around the city. We didn't do much site seeing because we were exhausted. Turns out we lost a day and half from traveling and I still have not completely caught up !
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