After a long 9 hour flight I finally touched down in Sydney. I was glad to finally be off the plane. I felt the Qantas flight was a dissapointment and found that the BA flight from London to Hong Kong had much better food, service and just general better staff. I don't know if it was due to an older style A330 Airbus which appeared to be a last minute swap over from the original 737, but what ever it was I felt Qantas let the passengers down. Apart from not being able to get my preferred meal which I wasn't to concerne about, it was more the time it took for the meals to be delivered, It was almost as if they only had one trolley and only two staff members to look after each side of the air craft. At one point the service was so slow on the colletion of trays that passengers had to carry them to the rear of the air craft just so they could get up from their seats and use the rest rooms. Utter discrace I thought.

However the flight itself was smooth and comfortable, but we did get delayed coming in due to lots of air traffic. Then once on the ground we had to wait for ages before our bags even came out of the plane. I was going to spend more time in Duty Free but had already spent a bit of time in there and thought my bag would be ready by the time I came out. Oh well. Delays because of weather I guess.

Eventually got my bag and headed into the customs area. I had a small wooden Mayjong box that I purchased in Hong Kong and had to declare. It was actually faster declaring items as I was able to skip the x-ray machine.

Came out the gate and met Cass and my parents. Cass was holding a welcome home sign and balloon and was very excited to see me, so were my parents. It was hugs all around for everyone , before I set out into the wet Sydney weather and headed home. Though wet it still was nowhere as cold as London.

As expected nothing much has changed from the sites in Sydney. There are just a few new houses or developments, specially the new unti blocks in saw in St Ives. Wow it sure looked different. What seemed to confuse me the most was the changes to the hosue that my parents had made. The new extensions have added extra space and are still in the final stages of painting and last touch ups, but the changes that these extenstions have brought has required some re thinking on my part. Once where a doorway stood is now a wall, hence I have to get to the kitchen via a newly created hallyway. I still almost walk into the wall everytime, expecting to find a door. The stair case has also been reversed, so where a wall once stood, is now the staircase, so I still attempt to climb the stairs from the old location. Thankfully I don't sleepwalk (That I'm aware of) otherwise my mind may remember the old layout and I could be in trouble. With new bathrooms and exterior rendering the house is a new place to explore and had made coming home something different. I'm sure in a couple of days I will have things sorted and be back on track.

So far not not feeling to bad, but did hit the wall slightly for a few minutes after a quick power nap. Would have been better staying awake at that point, but now that the hours have passed I'm feeling that the power nap probably did good in the end anyway.

Cass is cooking me some dinner this evening which I will enjoy. Yum