The excitement of what we knew lie ahead was obviously too much for us adults because we barely slept a wink and I was up by 4am finishing off the packing and doing the final cleaning tasks. We left home at 10am to drop the doggies off at the 'hotel' Dogs and Mogs for their 2.5 week holiday, both ran off and started barking at and chasing the other dogs and didn't come back so we could say good bye, so we left. This was our first time being away from them. I hope a few days in they don't start to worry if we'll be coming back for them.
Our car was left in the care of Airport Security Parking, which we have used several times now and always had positive experiences with. We were transfer to the airport and arrived at 11:45am and preceded to check in. While standing in line we meet a couple who were also going on the same cruise.
Now I thought I had worked out the baggage pretty well, but it seems our scales and the airlines scales were 4kg different. So here R was going through my bag to transfer to hand luggage as much as my stuff as he could. Nothing like standing in a crowded airport with your undies and bra's being thrown about everywhere. Needless to say next time we travel I'll be getting an extra 20kg baggage allowance.
Going through security, C dwarfs backpack was taken away, she had packed her pencil case complete with my nursing scissors. Not sure why she had them, but they have now been confiscated and discarded. We walked to gate 25 and discovered our plane was delayed by an hour and had not even arrive in Adelaide yet. We boarded flight JQ763 to Sydney at 2pm and after a mostly smooth flight, but bumpy landing, landed in Sydney at 4pm.
After some confusion as to where we where suppose to meet our driver, we where transferred to our accommodation in Parramatta. The trip cost us $170 for the 10 of us. APX apartments, Parramatta is located on Hope St in Rosehill, opposite the Rosehill Racecourse. It is short 200m walk to the local supermarket, fast food shops, restaurant and all you can eat buffet. We checked into room 40 & 29, which were ground floor apartments near the swimming pool, but in opposite buildings. Each apartment had lounge, dinning room, kitchen, laundry, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Apartments were dated and looked well used, however they were clean, comfortable and had all the conveniences we needed. The dwarfs made use of the swimming pool, while we cooked supermarket bought pizzas in the oven, before going to sleep for the night.
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