Safely landed in Sydney!
We’ve safely landed in Sydney, after the longest flight we’ve had so far! But to be honest, it didn’t feel that long for any of us. Well, that may be due to the fact that none of us had slept on the 2 days prior to our departure, so we enjoyed a little bit of sleep on our way down under! It’s been a good flight for almost everyone, despite the fact we weren’t sitting together. This was bad news for us, but good news for the other passengers… The unlucky one however, has been Alex. He was just in front of Sef. And Sef spent the 23 hours of flight snoring. And I mean snoring… Oh, and we’ve been sprayed by some weird stuff before getting out of the plane. But it was nontoxic they said, so that can’t explain why Sef is acting so weird at the moment… But with the exception of this, this very long flight has been a good one, as nothing has been lost nor broken! And as usual, we took the time to toast to what we’re living and to what’s ahead of us.
We’re having 1 very big van for the 11 of us, which is a good change from the UK, where we needed to split in 2 vans. The happiest? Matt and YB, the 2 drivers! For them, it means they can co-drive and get a little bit of rest! We were welcome in the van by what we think are typical australian snacks… Minties have been a favorite for everyone 😉
First stop? Oh come on, you know us better than this… Starbucks, of course! After a very enthusiastic request from the whole crew, the driver gave up on the “tight schedule”, and we went to the Starbucks. That we never found. A food fight, a few hideous spiders, some human-eye-eating birds and a human-killer crocodile after (we didn’t go close to the beach, so we haven’t seen any sharkagaroos), we reached the official first stop of our tour, a gear renting place that had a very suspicious “General Pants Group” written on the building… Followed a second renting place, and then we made a little detour for a Starbucks thoug. It was much appreciated by everyone of us, let me tell you!
We then had a 30 minutes ride to a place where we rehearsed! And on that ride, YB stayed faithful to his touring habit of having snacks on the road by taking out a bag of licorice he had purposefully brought with him from Canada!
The guys are right now rehearsing, before we head to Brisbane a little later tonight! Pictures will follow 🙂
– Stephanie