On our way

Australia trip Oct. 21, 2012

I got about 1 hour sleep last night.  We ended up running around trying to getBob’s phone prepped for international calls with a prepaid sim card inAustralia.  Apparently it is aprocess.  Originally we were told thatthe Sprint store in Sterling Heights could help us with it.  When we finally found the Sprint store theyinformed us that we need to do this online. We still don’t understand the whole process.  We have backed up our system and awaitfurther instruction when we get to Australia. We should be able to purchase a card there.  Scott picked us up about 2:30 this morningand I drove to the airport.  We got ourbaby time in last night when we were finished with some of our running.  Unfortunately it wasn’t enough time.  There was a bit of mixup at the airport as wesearched for the Quantas terminal, which there is none.  We are flying with American till Dallas andthen we will change to a Quantas run flight. My baggage was 2 lbs over and Bob’s 3 under.  See how nice things can work out.  No internet access here in the airport so Iwill wait to send this off.

Just arrived in Dallas about 9.  Our plane for Sydney does not leave until 10PM.  It is going to be a long day.  We may catch a shuttle into town and do a bitof sightseeing today if we are up to it. The flight here was uneventful.  Ilove this airport.  They have free wifiand even have small section where there are comfortable couches. We did notmanage to obtain one of those couches but may soon.  They have very nice mosaics on the floorshere and I have included a picture.Bob said no to the Hyatt here at theairport.  Would have negated our savingsfrom cheapo air.  The airport also has a monorail running around the terminals which gives us a view of the surrounding area. The little town nearby where the shuttles would take is is Grapevine Texas.  Sounds interesting.