Home At Last!!!

I made it home today after a loooong day of sitting on planes. I caught the train to the Sydney airport and was not very optimistic I would get on but figured that I should really try. There were 9 other standby people waiting for their names to be called and 8 of them got seats about 45 mins before the flight and I had a feeling that was it and started to get ready to head back into town. The lady at the counter told me to wait around a few more minutes since there were 2 more passengers booked on the flight who hadn't checked in and if they didn't show up I would have a seat. With only 25 minutest left to the flights departure I was handed a seat in the very back of the plane and am still in awe that it all worked out. I made the typical mad dash to the gate and settled in to my seat for a 14 hour flight that was full of movies and an attempted sleep. I got in to Vancouver 3 hours before my flight left Sydney (see if you can figure that one out!!) only to find out they had lost one of my bags and had to go through the baggage help centre to track it down. When all the paperwork was done I made my way to the Toronto flight and got the 2nd last seat on the flight, it actually turned out to be a very successful flying day for me. Im now at home and am running on only about 3 hours sleep in the past 24 hours so I'm slowly fading. Thanks for following my blog for the past few weeks, I hope you had a taste of what I've been through and maybe are considering doing Australia yourself. I'll post a bunch of pics tomorrow now that I have the time and tools to do it properly, they say a picture's worth a 1000 words so you can see for yourself tomorrow.