february 26
2010, a friday
finished packing, then spent the morning at the royal botanic gardens. it rained a bit, but we found some trees to stand under and it passed by in a few minutes. saw lots of pretty sub-tropical plants and flowers. then noticed - that racket? yeah, that’s hundreds of bats in the trees. EVERYWHERE. it was CRAZY. also saw an eel following a duck around a pond (sorry, that duck won’t fit in your mouth) and found out that they drain the pond every once in awhile but the eels repopulate themselves - rangers have seen baby eels crawling over the lawn from sydney harbour! went to the airport, said our goodbyes to aunt pat and uncle denny, then promptly found out our flight had been pushed back seven hours. hung out in the airport, used our meal vouchers. the time passed more quickly than i’d have thought. went through security and i got my wine confiscated - misunderstood a couple of answers to my questions about australian security, otherwise i would’ve packed them! finally our plane came, and we settled in for our 13 hour flight. slept a little, but not well. watched a couple movies to pass the time. mom and dad got standby for tomorrow morning’s flights to chicago and when i left them they were heading back to the qantas desk to get a hotel. steve picked me up and i’ve spent the rest of the night unpacking and opening mail and checking emails, etc, but totally avoiding facebook because i’m terrified of what i might find in there. can’t believe i’m back in LA - doesn’t feel quite real and i keep expecting to blink and find myself back down under.
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