flight to Australia and train to Melbourne

Dear Family and Friends,

        On Wednesday, 9/11, we flew to LAX where we caught a plane to Australia. The plane to Australia was massive! It was double decker and it had 3 sections for economy, all 3 sections on the lower level of the plane which also included some of first class. There were over 85 rows on one level of the plane, and there were 3 seats next to the window, 3 seats in the middle, and 3 seats next to the other window. Every person had two windows next to their seat. For take-off I watched the tail cam which is when the airplane has a built-in camera in its tail and you can watch the whole airplane take-off, in-flight, and landing. I watched 4 movies like I said I would, and managed to still get 6 hours of sleep. The movies I watched were The Hobbit, The Internship, Rise of the Guardians, and Despicable me.

Once we landed in Sydney and went through customs we rented a car and went to Richmond which is where we will be living. Richmond is about 40 miles west of Sydney.  After spending most of the day there we came back to Sydney to drop off the car, and go to the hotel. On our way to the hotel we missed the exit and got stuck in one of Sydney’s many annoying tunnels. So we decided to just drop the car off and then ride the intercity train to grand central where we got a cab to our hotel which was close to grand central so that we could catch a train the next day.

The next day we got on the train to Melbourne which is where I am as I write.  On the train I have seen many pastures with lots of sheep.  So far I think I have seen about 50,000 sheep which is very small fraction of the sheep in the two states of Victoria and New South Wales. In total there are 100,000,000 sheep in Australia, which is over 4 times as many people as there are.

                                                                                                        Travis