And we're off!......in style

The time has come and we have left for South America! After brilliant night with our families we had about 3 hours sleep before we had to leave for the airport!

We said our final goodbyes at the airport, which was awesome yet sad as we won't be able to see any of those guys for ages! Special mention goes to Alanah for the most tears and mike for having the driest!

On the flight to Sydney, I was starting to get a little more excited, yet worried that we would miss our connection at Sydney. That was until the pilot announced halfway through the flight that we were due to land 15 minutes early! PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!! Once we got off the plane, everything started to click! The fine people at Qantas had a bus waiting to take us to international, and we were in the terminal at the time the plane was originally meant to land! We then had enough time to go to the LAN checkin to ask for a cheeky upgrade....

So we asked the lady if there were any way we could upgrade to business class. She said no, as she had already upgraded her quota that morning! Bummer! So we handed her our original tickets to checkin, and she looks at her screen and says, "oh, you were 2 of the people I upgraded this morning, you're already in business class!"

"WHAT??!!!"

We went from being walking zombies from our first flight, to excited school children!
We then had to go through customs, oh wait, Jacqui decided now would be a good time to cancel her phone with 3!

But that didn't matter in the end, as business class customers ( ie. Us!) can use an express lane through customs, so it took us 2 minutes to get cleared and onto the plane with about 10 minutes to spare!

So business class...... Possibly the best thing ever!!! And we a milking every minute of it! As I write this, I have my legs up in my recliner than turned into a bed, while receiving from a three course dinner!!! As we arrived we were given drinks, and the flight attendants address me as Mr. Archer! Gold!

We had the crazy though in Auckland that we might be able to use the Qantas lounge, as we now have higher social standing! Turns out we were correct, and we grabbed some more free food and drink and made good use of there wifi.

Well that's probably all there is to report at this stage, ill have posted this when we land in Santiago, and I may update once we're in Quito!

Adios amigos!