Cheers Australia!

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Tyrn and I spent our last few days in Australia with our amazing friends in Brisbane.  This is Craig showing Ty the joys of Bundaberg Rum (Craig's home town north of Brisbane).   Both Craig and Jill are teachers who met while teaching in Italy.  It was great to relax with these cats before making our last journey on this trip.
Jill making omlettes for us.  
Tyrn laughing uncontrolably when the omlette flipping technique didn't work out as planned and the goopy eggs were everywhere.  They still tasted good and we absolutely enjoyed Jill and Craig's Aussie/Canuck hospitality.
The day before our flight home.  Packing and making sure we are ready, I always seem to rake my nerves the night before something big.
We started our trip home in the Brisbane airport at 6:30am on May 22nd.  We then flew to New Zealand in 3 hours (long story) and then layed over in Auckland for 4 hours.  We are still looking all pretty and chipper at this time, but just wait another 50 hours when we finally stagger through the Edmonton arrival gate.  
We then flew from Auckland to Melbourne (4 hour trip) and layed over for another couple of hours.  We then took off for Dubai our long 14 hour flight and layed over there for 2 hours.  This connection was pretty tight and we ended up running through the insanely busy Dubai airport, but made our flight with time to spare.
Next we boarded our flight to London Heathrow a 7.5 hour flight over Europe.  
Our final connection was 3 hours long and we spent it working out a ticket mistake with Air Canada.  Apparently, Emirates (who we were flying with) hadn't actually booked our tickets with Air Canada for our last flight to Edmonton.  Of course when they check the plane is incredibly full, but they got us on Air Canada flight 899 somehow.  
FINALLY, we are headed home!  Our last flight was 9 hours, making our total transport time 52 hours and our total flight hours 41- yikes!  (I know, we are INSANE)  We landed in Edmonton at 5:25pm on May 23rd, however that would be the 24th in Australia time.  
Waiting for us, as promised, with a sign was Tyrn's little bro Matthew.  Unfortunately, one of our bags didn't make all of our connections with us and so we had to fill out a lost bag claim.  This took forever, because like the good Canadians we are, we let everyone go in front of us in line making us the LAST two people in the terminal.
This is my parents and Matt wondering where we are?  All the other folks were cleared out by the time we pushed through those arrival doors.
We aren't looking as pretty anymore.  (Yes, that is how they wear thier socks in Europe these days.)  

We are HOME!

Tyrn's mom has been planning our welcome home supper for about 3 months now and it was FANTASTIC!  We had steak, greek salad, delicious potatoes and all the trimmings.  Of course all I really cared about was the cheesecake for dessert.

We're back!  We will be posting a "back in Canada" post soon, but we were a little hectic when we first got here.  Now we are staying at Ty's parent's place while we sort things out.  

We are happy to be home and looking forward to seeing everyone very soon!

K