Our flight left today about 9:15. For the most part it was uneventful. However, we were sitting behind three men wearing uniforms of some sort. As the clueless Americans we didn't realize that these three men were famous Rugby players who played for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL (yes, it's really Roosters). When we got off the plane there were news crews waiting to greet the teammates who were coming to Cairns for a big match next week. Any Australian would have been ecstatic to sit so close to these star athletes, maybe these guys were lucky we had no idea who they were and didn't bother them.
We arrived in Cairns today around 11:30. Now we are only 15 hours ahead of EST if anyone's keeping track. We decided to keep it low key today because our next two days here are going to be all day tours. We laid out by the pool for several hours. It is really hot here. I think this is the closest to the sun I have ever been and it's very intense. We had drinks from the bar, a light lunch and just caught up on some reading. It was very relaxing.
Around 5:00 we cleaned up and went to eat dinner. We found a nice seafood place and ate on the patio overlooking the Marina. It was a nice day to catch up on some rest. I can't wait for the Great Barrier Reef tomorrow. I'll fill you in later.
I've started only uploading my pictures on to a site where you can look at all of them at once. I'll post the site and password later this evening.
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