Finally in Australia

G'day mate. I've finally reached Australia! It was a very very very long couple of travel days but we've arrived. We started our journey at 8am Tuesday the 26th when we got on the Tri-Rail in Florida and headed to the Miami Airport. We got to the airport around 10:30 then had to wait around for the ticket counter to open. The first flight left Miami destined for Washington Dulles Airport. Then we left Washington and went to San Francisco where we had 3 hours to kill so we got dinner and walked around. Then we left San Francisco on the biggest plane I've ever been on. It was one of those 747s with the 2 levels and the 4 engines and hundreds of seats. The worst part was getting on the plane where you could see inside the first class and business class where they had the comfy chairs that folded out into a bed and their own tv screens...it was just like a ha ha wish you could sit here type of thing, but only if you dished out a few thousand dollars. But anyway the flight was wicked long. 14 hours as a matter of fact. The first part seemed to drag on but they had good movies on that I've never seen before like 'Grown Ups' 'The Back-up Plan' 'Cyrus' and the 'The Joneses'. The last two I could have cared less about but they weren't terrible. Also on the flight we got some decent food and all the water you could ask for. Other than that it was uneventful. I did manage to sleep for about 45 minutes that's it. But after 14 long hours we landed in Sydney on the 28th, 2 days after leaving Miami! Weird. But once in Sydney we had to take another flight down to Melbourne and then from Melbourne to Perth on the west coast. So the entire journey took 27 hours on an airplane but I was awake for over 40 hours with probably about 2 hours worth of sleeping. It wasn't fun. I really wish I could sleep on planes. But to top things off once we were in Perth we had to drive 5 hours to get to Kalgoorlie which is a mining town in the middle of nowhere which is where the first tournament is being held. That drive was awful! We were literally driving through the outback in the middle of the night. There was nothing around, no lights no buildings no nothing besides 18 wheelers. It was kind of creepy. Especially when we got stopped at a railroad crossing and there wasn't anything around. I thought people were going to jump out at us. But we finally arrived in Kalgoorlie at around midnight and man did I sleep good that night. Since then I've just been practicing so nothing too exciting. The courts aren't too bad. They're on the edge of town next to cricket fields so the area is really windy, I just hope it calms down before the matches start. But it's doubtful. Anyway the tournament starts tomorrow so hopefully I'll do okay, but we'll see tomorrow.