We had a few Griswold adventures today.... We woke up around 8am and had a leisurely breakfast of tea, yogurt, breakfast bars, and bananas in the hotel room before checking out. We had arranged for the airport shuttle, which we had prepaid, to pick us up at 845 for our 1055 departure. When we were at the hotel desk, the clerk told me the shuttle left at 915 and the next one was at 1115!
We hastily hailed a taxi and a nice lady took us to the airport, where I paid the $55 fare on my Visa. After saying our goodbyes, we got to the check in counter where we showed our passports, which I had retrieved from our trip ' folder'. We proceeded through security and were waiting to board when the gate agent paged me (?) to the counter.
Seems I had left my visa card with the taxi driver who returned to the airport to turn it in to the airline! I wouldn't have noticed until we had arrived in Sydney otherwise. Furthermore, she paged me AGAIN and presented me with our trip folder, which I had abandoned at teh check in counter. Not an auspicious start to teh day.
THe flight to Sydney was uneventful, adn Marc and Barbara met us at the airport and ferried us around town and then to lunch, after a stop at a beautiful viewpoint to see the Opera house and the bridge across the harbor. What a magnificent site, and the cruise ship terminal is right between them.
Marc deposited us at the Condo and they returned home to their COMPANY and will pick us up again tomorrow for a day's outing, dinner on their barbie, and an overnighter at their home. THey are great folks and it is great to catch up with them again.
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