4 days, 2 plane rides and 1 bus ride later, we finally
arrived in Australia!
Caroline dropped us off at the Los Angeles airport around
8pm Tuesday night and met up with Eric and Adam [two boys Jeremy played with in
Williamsport and Lakewood] who also will be on his team in Canberra!
Our plane left LAX around 11 pm on Tuesday night and we
arrived in Sydney Australia around 8am Thursday morning! It was a loooooong
bumpy 15-hour flight. If you’ve ever met me you probably know I have an extreme
fear of flying. It was definitely
a huge challenge for me to fly 20 hours over a 3 day time period but I’m so
thankful I did it. Thank you to Jeremy for being patient with me every time the
plane made a strange noise or got bumpy and I was convinced we were about to
crash :)
After we got off the plane we met up with 2 more American
players from the team and the 6 of us hoped on a 3-hour bus ride to Canberra. Canberra
is the city we will be living in while we are in Australia. It is the Capitol
City of Australia, located half way between Sydney and Melbourne.
Once we arrived in Canberra the GM of the team picked up
Jeremy, Eric and myself and took us to our Flat [We don’t say apartment here]
Our flat is located directly across the street from a cute shopping square.
There are a bunch of cafes, bakeries, a bank, a huge supermarket, and a great
used bookstore / café which also has live music on the weekends!
An hour after we arrived, Jeremy and Eric had to head over
to the baseball field for their first practice! I don’t know how they practiced
after traveling for over 24 hours plus jetlag!
While they were gone I went over the shopping center and
went to the bank, supermarket, and café! I had desperately been trying to find
some wifi since we landed so I could contact my parents in Philadelphia. None
of us have working cell phones in Australia so our only option was finding wifi
for email. Australia has hardly any free wifi. It is very different than
America. I’ve learned that most families don’t have unlimited wifi Internet in
their homes like we do back in the states. Thankfully the used book store/ café
has wifi so we can come over here for the time being and email everyone back at
home!
We will try to take post pictures of our apartment and
neighborhood over the next few days!
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