Yay, I'm feeling better! But still dragging....I'm hoping that I'll feel like a hundred bucks on Thursday. One thing for sure, I've rarely lost any appetite when I get sick! I can still eat no matter how close to death I might feel!
I reserved my flights between Melbourne and Perth today on the Qantas website using my Qantas miles. The surprise was that I was charged for taxes and airport fees that were applied to the tickets! I've used frequent flyer miles before on American Airlines and all costs and fees were covered by the miles, no extra cost added on. So this took me by surprise when I saw AU$124 pop up and to what credit card I wanted to put it on. With the conversion, it comes out to US$92 but it was the principle of the thing. Accumulated miles should be covering all costs, not just the cost of flying. Granted, $92 ain't bad for flying across Australia (about the width of the USA) two times but, hey, y'know?
I'll get to spend about 8 hours in Melbourne, so I'll be taking the SkyBus from the airport to downtown "Mel-bun" and spend some time walking around, including a trek to the Victoria Market to do some Christmas shopping and maybe hit the South Bank for lunch and a black-white (coffee). Then go thru some of the pedestrian malls before returning to the airport. After leaving Melbourne, I'll have a one-hour stopover in Adelaide before continuing to Perth. I could have gotten a 3-hour stopover in Adelaide, with the thought of seeing a friend who lives there...hoping he could drive out to pick me up, we'd get a quick meal and then he'd return me to the airport. But he found out that his work will require him to be out of town that week so, in that case, there's no reason for me to stay any longer than I have to. He'll be in the States in April so I'll catch up with him then. Adelaide has rebuilt their airport since I was last there in June, 2005 and I'll be interested to see how the place looks.
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