Look out Milan Here we come

Good lord what a day. Everything was tootling along fine until we get to the Adelaide airport, talk about a plava. One small heart attack and quite a bit of stress later Cathy and I find our selves wandering around the Melbourne airport ah la Kath and Kell (sans delightful jumpers) Finialy we were able to check our baggage in (Very proud of my packing effort 14.7kg's)just waiting for passport control to open so we can get to international departures where things are actually open ( that by the way was a lie as nothing was open when we went through) Who knew that the domestic terminal closed down at midnight. Going to go now because this computer doesn't have a mouse that works which is more than a little annoying at 2:54am. Talk to you from Dubai.

Well thought I would add my two cents worth to our first blog post. We are finally through to the international departures area. We still have 2hrs before our flight leaves, so we are trying not sleep. It would be a whole lot easier if they would open up the shops already! It's all very exciting, my first trip out of the country. It's not very touristy, but I think our first action in Italy will be to sleep. We're both exhausted and it doesn't help that our flight has been delayed for 2hrs. But as Asha said - it's better to be delayed than dead! What's planned for our first few days in Milan you may ask, the first day is recovery, breakfast buffet and coffee, lots of coffee! Then friday, all going to plan it's off to Venice, to take in the sights, and some gorgeous Murano glass. Souns like a plan Stan says Wombat. Di, you will be pleased to know that Wombat has been on his best behaviour, no wombatising, hard liquor, or general shenanigans. He has already posed for some lovely photos and seems to be happy to travel in style in my very fetching carry on bag. It's a wombats life one might say. Well I'm signing off for the moment, so it's cya bye from the international lounge @ Melbourne Airport.

It be day two of travelling, we are currently in Dubai Airport, it's rather modern with lovely reclining seats, which Asha and I are taking full advantage of after being smooshed in the plane. I made my first overseas purchase, inhaler as I forgot mine and then some Hagen Daas, which wombat thoroughly enjoyed. Not much else has happened, didn't get a great deal of sleep, but did manage to watch lots of movies in between dozing. It's nearly time to board for the Dubai - Milan part of the flight, blog again when we get to Italy!!

C.