After a day that seemed to take forever, driving down to Penrith to drop the little car into the smash repairers, back up to home to finish the packing, and then boarding the train to get us to the International Terminal, leaving the girls at home, we checked in our luggage and tried several times to ring the girls but they were having dinner and had taken the phone off the hook. We finally spoke to them and then proceeded through immigration and on to duty free where we stocked up on some nice drink for the cruise.

The flight to Singapore was 8hrs 15 mins and we then had a one hour stopover at Singapore. We went to a Subways at Singapore airport to buy some water using some old currency that Tom had found in his money collection. The man at Subways was quite excited because he hadn't seen the old coins for a long time so he swapped all that we had for the new coins, which might come in handy some day....

We went to the toilets, and I was thinking that they were better than the "hole in the ground" that Shannon had described to us 6 years ago, until a door swung open and I saw that they still had the toilet bowls set into the floor, as well as a row of conventional loos.

Jessie had written us a letter, to be read after leaving Sydney - it made me cry (of course).

We continued on to Dubai - another 7 hours and 5 minutes.