Down Under 2/17/14 Flying to Sydney, first day

This process takes a lot of time so I will need to make a dedicated effort...I will do my best.

The start of a long planned...and long trip to visit Australia and New Zealand.  The Honey Badgers (hereinafter the HBs) are off to Los Angeles via an Airbus 380.

Becky Brown & John McHugh

Mark & Jenny Sadow

Jack & Anne

The flight to Sydney was long enough for me to watch 3 movies and get a full night of drug induced sleep!

The driver thought we were typical tourists with tons of bags....NOT1

The Queen Mary in port

Manly Beach

Aquarium

 The $40 ticket to the aquarium made me appreciate what we have in St. Louis....free everything.

Sydney Opera House

We did our best to stay awake for the whole day.  We met up with my friend Tony Mikus who showed us around the town, on the ferry, at the quay, the aquarium, lunch, dinner and off to sleep...jet lag mostly conquered.

The Honey Badgers head "down under"

Honey Bader attacking my Screen

Most of you who are viewing this are familiar with the trip emails that I have sent out in the past covering my vacations...there was Antarctica, Africa, the Dalmation coast...and now we head to Australia and New Zealand.

What you might not remember is that for Antarctica and Africa we traveled with two other couples:  Mark & Jenny Sadow and John McHugh & Becky Brown.  On our last trip to Africa we named ourselves "the honey badgers" after that outstanding youtube video narrated by Randall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?  v=4r7wHMg5Yjg  It's really worth watching if you've never seen it.

Monday night we head off to our first stop, Sydney.  For this trip I am experimenting with blogging as it looks much easier than assembling the emails the hard way...hopefully I will be able to do many more posts this way.

ALERT-I bought a GoPro mini waterproof camera...check out some of the activities we will be doing...I hope! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wbvpOIIBQA

Watch for more posts!

Jack & Anne