Day one in the books

So after thrilling day/days of traveling we have arrived in Australia. The flights all went well, with no major hang ups until we arrived in New Zealand. Evidently US airport security is not as tight as we had imagined. Our own Mandi Thelen was caught bringing a 3 inch blade into NZ via her carry on. Luckily she was not arrested, though it would have made for a better story. In the wee hours of the morning towards the end of our flight from LA to NZ we fly over a thunder storm which look amazing from where we were at. At one point I thought we were flying over a couple of islands but it turns out that is was just the engines on the wings of the plane (it was a bit dark when I was looking out the window). We arrived in Australia during the morning and with the time change from NZ was very hard to get used to. It seemed like the longest morning ever because we kept being set back a few hours. Customs and immigration were quite easy to get through then we had a 2 hour bus ride to Lennox Head. We stopped on the way for dinner at a food court of sorts. The food was pretty decent and there were these large birds hanging around which the bus driver fooled me into believing you could, can you say gullible! Anyways, we are all in a large cabin for the next few days until we move to smaller cabins were we are going to be broken up into smaller groups, mainly by gender Mom don't worry no girls in our room. We saw a python up in a tree and we explored the surrounding bush as they say. The beach is amazing and probably one of the highlights of our trip thus far. For being winter here it is quite nice and light years from a typical Michigan winter.

Cheers Mates,

Tom