Home Sweet Home

We decided that we didn't have enough time to go to the Vactican (we would've had about 45 minutes there) so we just wandered around Rome before getting the train to the airport. This marked the beginning of our 40 hour trip home.

It went something like this...

Get to Rome airport at about 1pm , wait around until our flight at 5pm. Fly for 2.5 hours back to Amsterdam. Stop over in Amsterdam for about 1.5 hours before flying 12 hours to Kuala Lumpur. Wait in KL for 6 of the most boring hours until we board for our final 8 hours of our journey.

I managed maybe 1 hour sleep on the entire trip, Jo managed maybe 3 at the most. We arrived in Sydney and we both got through passport control quite quickly (even with my two passports, grr). About 4 flights had all arrived at the same though so we waited for about 30 minutes to get our bags and then Jo and I separated into the two channels for Quanantine. I went through "Something to declare" and I had some keyrings made of wood and Jo went through "Nothing to declare". This probably took another 30-40 minutes. Australia is super strict with these things. While waiting for our baggage my back-pack was checked by a Beagle and sniffer dogs patrol the baggage conveyer belts.

Bo and Claire were waiting for us on the other side (even with a balloon!) to take us home. It was great to have some friendly faces waiting for us and we went home via getting some milk for a cuppa as soon as we walked in the door.

We exchanged birthday presents as today is my birthday, Jo's was the 19th and Claire's the 14th. All June babies. Claire was delighted with her Diesel bag we got for her in Venice and a leather journal for both Claire and Bo for their trips at the end of this week where we return the dropping off at the airport favour. They got us some great Bonds pj bottoms and a fantastic Kylie Kwong cookbook. Mmmmmm, Mrs Jangs homestyle eggs.