Our Bags Are Packed, We're Ready To Go

That would be a great opening line for a song wouldn't it?  Well our bags are pretty well packed anyway.  We will experience a wide range of weather conditions from around 20° on a day or two in Perth to almost 40° in Broome while away.  This means we need to have a variety of stuff to wear for different weather conditions.

Our suit cases lay open on the bed with last minute thought items being added.  Like the 'international' travel plug for the ship's power points and the Aussie Power Board to attach to it so rechargeables can all be kept ready to go.

It seems like we almost have to pack a Chemist shop as well with the tablets we now need.  As we dock in to around 6 or 8 Australian ports we can carry our prescriptions with us and always know we can get top ups if required.

I 'did' another android box this morning and the guy seemed pretty happy with what he now has.  As it was only a copy/paste job from what I done previously at another guy's place it all went sweetly. His problem was another stuff up from an Aussie company called "Droidworld" who sell these pre configured boxes and then botched a major upgrade.

People buy these pre-configured boxes because they are not confident in their ability to set them up.  So when the box needs an upgrade, the Droidworld company put out instructions that you would almost need to be a rocket scientist to work them out for these non android TV box literate people to do!  Ah well, he was most grateful today and delighted with what he now has. He wants to make a contribution to my Home Brew Shop account in Caloundra!

Trish and I will head out for a meal this evening and then into bed fairly early for an early start tomorrow.  We are being driven to the airport for our 8:15 am takeoff, leaving home by 5:45 am.  You never know what is in store for us on the 80k drive to Brisbane Airport so we want to ensure we have heaps of time.  We are more than happy to wait for an hour or more before takeoff at the airport than be biting fingernails caught in peak hour traffic 10k's from the airport!

The pool has already been topped up and later today I will 'pack' the outdoor furniture, lock the back shed and padlock the side gate.

Needless to say there will more things to pop into the suitcases between now and 5:30 am tomorrow.  As we fly Qantas we get 23kg luggage allowance each which will be ample for us.  There are no 'cut price' fares direct from Brisbane to Perth.  It needs to be a larger aircraft than the cut price airlines use to handle the 5hrs 30 min trip so we were limited to Qantas and Virgin.  Despite being Qantas, we managed reasonable fares by booking so far ahead.

It is a 5 and a 1/2 hour trip to Perth so we leave here at 8:15 am Queensland time and get to Perth around 11:45am 'their' time.  Kim is taking time off work while we are there so she will be at the airport waiting to pick us up!

It will be be great to see her again.  We stay with her for around 9 nights before boarding the 'Sea Princess' Sunday May 1st mid afternoon.

Our return flights after the cruise to Brisbane from Sydney are also with Qantas which means we have the extra luggage allowance as well.

So the next month's blogging will be done from the Tablet using free 'wifi' when ever we can.  We do have access to "Telstra Air" as well which may be handy at times when available.

You can follow our cruise HERE.