G’day mates! Greetings from Sydney. On Sunday, I took the longest commercial air flight in the world — Dallas to Sydney. It departed Sunday at 8:30pm Dallas time and arrived Tuesday at 6:30am in Sydney. So I completely lost Monday. Does that mean I’m a day younger?

The plane was comfortable (3 – 4 – 3 seating). I had a window seat and no one between me and the next closest passenger. They didn’t bring my vegetarian meal as I had requested, but I enjoyed multiple gratis kit-Kats. Only one ear worked in the headphone jack for the 5 movies that I watched, and the USB port didn’t work to charge my phone, so a bit disappointing.

I forgot how tropical it is in Sydney. It’s summer here, low 70s, but had forgotten about the palm trees and humidity. After a 30 minute nap at the hotel, I headed to the office.

It was so nice to spend time face to face with my colleagues in Australia. One has flown in from Perth and another from Canberra.

After work I squeezed in some site seeing – walking for 3.5 hours to help me get on AEST. The botanical gardens were beautiful especially the palm tree path and all the different types of birds I’ve never seen before. And a tree that looks just like the whomping willow from Harry Potter. I saw the St George open air cinema, then down to Macquaries point, I walked up to the opera house (too late to join the last tour), had oysters and prosecco at the Sydney Cove Oyster Bar, walked past Circular Quay over to The Rocks and then back to Circular Quay for a quick dinner. A lot of walking.

Surprisingly not tired, so we’ll see how I feel tomorrow!