Sarah is writing this blog and I doubt if Alan will be awake enough to make any comments.
We got up on our final morning of our trip and it was a lovely sunny warm day, typical for Las Vegas.
We checked out of our hotel by 11am and had a few hours to kill before returning the car to the airport and flying to Los Angeles and then home.
First stop was at New York New York casino where Alan faced his fear again and went on the Manhattan rollercoaster. It is starting to show it's age and Alan came off feeling a little knocked around. We then decided to go and see what the buffet at The MGM was like. We had a lot of money to burn as Alan had had a good poker win the night before. The buffet wasn't that great and had no where near the quality or variety of the one at Planet Hollywood.
After a final farewell to the MGM lions (only two now, there were three the last time we were there) we headed back to the airport. We had planned another quick photo stop at the Las Vegas sign but there was a tour bus in and people everywhere.
The car was quickly dropped off, got the shuttle bus to the airport and went to the check-in. Even though we had already paid our baggage cost, we were told that if they checked our bags straight through to Sydney, we would get that money back. After agreeing we were then a little apprehensive as the woman had to go and get her notes on how to do it. Oh well, if they bags didn't arrive for a few days, it didn't really matter.
Our flight to LA was delayed 40 minutes but as we had 5 hours to kill before our international departure, it didn't matter.
We were hopeful we might be able to check into our flight to Australia early but were surprised to discover with still 4 hours until departure that the flight was open and in fact 111 people had already checked in before us. We were able to secure two seats in the centre part of the plane so we didn't have to worry about disturbing or being disturbed by someone wanting to get up during the night.
The V Australia/Virgin America part of the airport is dreadful with only two food choices; this really smelly fish place and Burger King. We opted for Burger King and then joined the others in the large holding room and waited the inordinate amount of time for our flight.
Finally on board we chose to use our blankets as seat cushions in the hope of improving the quality of the ride home which seemed to work pretty well. The onboard food was dreadful again and I was glad to have had something to eat at the airport. I watched The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock and loved it. I highly recommend it. It was so good I was contemplating watching it again straight away.
The flight was reasonably smooth with only a small bit of turbulence and I managed to get a decent amount of sleep. After waking up I watched Up In The Air with George Clooney. It was OK.
We arrived back in Sydney only about 15 minutes late which wasn't bad considering the flight left 30 minutes late. Immigration was reasonably quick and then we waited and waited for our bags to come out. Finally about 40 minutes later they arrived and a quick 2 minutes and we were out of Customs.
So, that's it for this blog. I hope for all those that read it, enjoyed it.
No plans for another trip just yet but we will keep you posted. I did almost book something last Thursday when I received a travel newsletter about a 24 hour sale to Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines for $485 return to Honolulu (including all taxes) for Feb/March 2011. Alan thinks I should have booked it!
We got up on our final morning of our trip and it was a lovely sunny warm day, typical for Las Vegas.
We checked out of our hotel by 11am and had a few hours to kill before returning the car to the airport and flying to Los Angeles and then home.
First stop was at New York New York casino where Alan faced his fear again and went on the Manhattan rollercoaster. It is starting to show it's age and Alan came off feeling a little knocked around. We then decided to go and see what the buffet at The MGM was like. We had a lot of money to burn as Alan had had a good poker win the night before. The buffet wasn't that great and had no where near the quality or variety of the one at Planet Hollywood.
After a final farewell to the MGM lions (only two now, there were three the last time we were there) we headed back to the airport. We had planned another quick photo stop at the Las Vegas sign but there was a tour bus in and people everywhere.
The car was quickly dropped off, got the shuttle bus to the airport and went to the check-in. Even though we had already paid our baggage cost, we were told that if they checked our bags straight through to Sydney, we would get that money back. After agreeing we were then a little apprehensive as the woman had to go and get her notes on how to do it. Oh well, if they bags didn't arrive for a few days, it didn't really matter.
Our flight to LA was delayed 40 minutes but as we had 5 hours to kill before our international departure, it didn't matter.
We were hopeful we might be able to check into our flight to Australia early but were surprised to discover with still 4 hours until departure that the flight was open and in fact 111 people had already checked in before us. We were able to secure two seats in the centre part of the plane so we didn't have to worry about disturbing or being disturbed by someone wanting to get up during the night.
The V Australia/Virgin America part of the airport is dreadful with only two food choices; this really smelly fish place and Burger King. We opted for Burger King and then joined the others in the large holding room and waited the inordinate amount of time for our flight.
Finally on board we chose to use our blankets as seat cushions in the hope of improving the quality of the ride home which seemed to work pretty well. The onboard food was dreadful again and I was glad to have had something to eat at the airport. I watched The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock and loved it. I highly recommend it. It was so good I was contemplating watching it again straight away.
The flight was reasonably smooth with only a small bit of turbulence and I managed to get a decent amount of sleep. After waking up I watched Up In The Air with George Clooney. It was OK.
We arrived back in Sydney only about 15 minutes late which wasn't bad considering the flight left 30 minutes late. Immigration was reasonably quick and then we waited and waited for our bags to come out. Finally about 40 minutes later they arrived and a quick 2 minutes and we were out of Customs.
So, that's it for this blog. I hope for all those that read it, enjoyed it.
No plans for another trip just yet but we will keep you posted. I did almost book something last Thursday when I received a travel newsletter about a 24 hour sale to Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines for $485 return to Honolulu (including all taxes) for Feb/March 2011. Alan thinks I should have booked it!
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