Two Weeks of Oz
Well, we officially left home two weeks ago today! Not that it meant that we got to Australia right away. In fact, our original flight route was Halifax-Toronto-Vancouver-Sydney-Melbourne. The weather looked decent everywhere that day so I wasn't concerned. Until waiting at our gate in Toronto, and our flight to Vancouver was all of the sudden just plain old cancelled. So here's the kicker: we really didn't have any time pressure, nothing to specifically "be in Australia" for. However, because of our colossal complications with our NZ visa, and re-routing to Australia at the last minute, our flight from Sydney to Melbourne was not attached to the rest of our route. Aka, you miss that flight, regardless of the circumstances, really not their problem. So thanks to our awesome counter guy at Westjet, he managed to rebook us on a route that would get us to Sydney before our next flight... via Shanghai. Yawn. The trip got much longer, in terms of being on an actual a...