The Traveling Martens

The longest day!

It's kind of hard to fathom. Sydney is on the other side of the international date line in the Pacific, so it is about half a day ahead of the U.S. So that means, we woke up at 7 a.m. Wednesday in Sydney, had one last great breakfast at our hotel and headed to the airport. Our flight left Sydney at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, crossed the date line, and arrived in L.A. at 6:50 a.m., four hours before we even left! (Not bad for a 12 hour flight!) We then had a layover, an 11:00 a.m. flight home, and arrived in St Louis at 5 p.m. All of this in the same day, but of course, we've actually been up for about 30 hours straight, writing this at about 8 p.m. Wednesday night at home (which would already be tommorrow morning in Sydney, thus we're not as tired as we should be, because our body clocks are telling us it's time to wake up again).

We will be adding pictures as soon as possible! We leave for Europe May 25, so contact us via email or cellphone before then.

posted by Mel and Stacy Marten @ 9:23 PM