Adventure to Southeast Asia!

Hello again, everyone! Time for another new adventure. This will be our longest trip away at a whopping 7 weeks, with 39 days aboard Crystal Serenity from Sydney, Australia to Singapore. After Cairns the entire itinerary will be brand new to us, so we're really looking forward to this cruise.

It felt like we were packing for about a month, as we started early to make sure  we were not packing too little or too much! At the suggestion of some other world cruisers, we bought some compression bags and were able to mash down a lot of the bulkier stuff into about a quarter of its regular size! Best idea EVER (as some people we know would say)!!

We were so intent on getting the packing done that we didn't get an intro blog post up. So we'll include a couple of photos from the flight - Emirates A380 First Class. And boy, is it ever nice! The seats are really little pods with privacy doors that can be closed when you want to sleep. And speaking of sleep - the best sleep we've ever experienced on a plane! Even the turbulence (and we encountered some on what is normally a very smooth flight) didn't bother us too much.

Here are a couple of photos from the flight:

Our private pods. You can see the door just to Larry's right

The mini-bar of soft drinks and water on the right, large
widescreen TV for movies and info, lit mirror vanity, and snack basket.

Emirates First Class is known for its avaliable shower. This shows about
half of the bathroom. A really nice size, a big enough shower
stall with 5 minutes of water per shower, and even a
HEATED FLOOR!!

We arrived at our hotel in Sydney at about 11:00 p.m. local time, and are now ready to head out for breakfast and a little shopping for incidentals for the cruise. This evening we're having dinner with a couple we met on the Esprit cruise in September who live here. More later!!