Well... here we go!

It is now 1:15 am, and we are leaving for the airport in a couple of hours. I however, (this is Ross posting) cannot sleep due to extreme excitment. We were up until after midnight packing and tidying anyway, so I figure a couple of hours will leave me feeling more tired than no sleep at all - and this way I'll sleep on the plane. I thought that this was as good a time as any to post our final blog entry from Australia. We had a crazy night packing our bags. As is typical for us, we planned to have this task completed by mid afternoon, yet we didn't get started till after (a late) dinner! We managed to fill both of our suitcases ridiculously over our baggage allowance, and spent a great deal of time and energy repacking and taking non-essentials (which all seem essential) out of our bags. Now we are both only 2 kg over our allowance and are hoping that the lovely people at Avalon and Sydney Airports will be kind to us. So that's it! In a couple of hours, my (endlessly patient and helpful) Dad will drive us to Avalon Airport. From there we fly to Sydney at 6am. We have a short stopover there, then leave from Sydney to Kansai International at midday. We will land at about 8pm Osaka time, go through customs and catch a bus to meet our housing agent. He will then drive us to our apartment in Juso. The next time that we post a blog entry will be from Japan. By then we should have heaps of cool photo's of our apartment and surroundings!