The Quinn Family Excellent Adventure: Goodbye Sydney

We slept pretty good and rose well at 6:00 AM. Uber ride to the airport was at 8:00 AM. We had a few hours to eat, cleanup, chill and do a final pack. We arrived with plenty of time to check in and board. Our Indonesia departure tickets has not yet been arranged so we were concerned about that. Security check in for me was weird. I must have looked oto casual and relaxed. I also had become separated from Michelle after screening (you can't wait there for another) I guess I looked like a bad ass because I was asked to go through the Xray, eek. I had nothing in my pockets yet the scanner triggered something. The silly woman put me through again. Same false positive. Some dude had to come over, see I had nothing in my pockets and pat down the areas they sensed something. My shorts have zippers and this scanner saw them as metal. Seriously Someone needs to calibrate that Xray because I'm glowing now :-). Our flight was at gate 63. Cool the last gate. We needed a morning walk. Flight is going well and we are looking at the lovely red soil of interior AU. It was nice saying goodbye to AU by flying over our most cherished spots. Approaching Indonesia I could see the airport we were to land at. The captain indicated there was some runway maintenance ongoing so we had to go into a holding pattern for a while. That was kinda cool. I could see 2 other craft in the pattern as well. We were soon landing and departing onto a very hot and humid tarmac. Fetching our bags and passing into the country went smooth. The transition to the next country is always a bit wonky with no cell data in place. This time it was a little awkward with getting a taxi. It turned out the hotel did not see our request for a ride that day (message was at 3:00 AM) We wasted 30 minutes trying to find our names on cardboard held by one of at least 40 people looking for rides. Many others came to us asking to be their taxi. We called the hotel and learned it would be 1.5 hours total time. Bummer. We took our chances with someone who helped us with a call. It turns out some "taxi" drivers don't have taxis licences I suppose. We were led away from the departure area into the parking elevator. We both were a little weirded out about this so I asked him to bring the car to us. This would foil any attempts at funny business as we were not going to any non public area. After an awkward 10 minute wait, he arrived. It turned out ok and we were driving away from the airport soon after. The traffic here is nuts. The drivers are not so concerned about lane choices and the constant barrage of scooters and motorcycles reveals a beautiful but chaotic dance. It's mesmerizing to watch the traffic flow. Our hotel awaited a 45 minute drive. OMG it's way way to fancy for us. Massive ceilings, long hallways, huge pool, people tripping over themselves to help you, huge room, amazing cheap food. Total score. We ordered room service had a swim, yoga, mojito, smoothy and crashed.

Buddy and his shy friend