Sydney trip "day One "

  Finally after . Two years of phone calls and emails between  my friend and mentor and myself  . who I strongly believe with her love and support I would never have made it this far let alone begun my journey in the first place
I'm getting on a plane to Sydney to meet her

Check in at Tullamarine airport . I get there nice and early so I can get my bags checked and get my ticket then relax before I'm due to fly out .
No sooner than I get in the queue than the garbled voice over the intercom announces that my flight has been re-routed to Avalon Airport due to fog .So much for the statement at least I live nice and close if I need to catch a plane
  So I dutifully move over to the other queue along with 300 other disgruntled passengers  , where it seems time has stopped ,or is just that my feet haven't moved for 15 minutes . out with my trusty I-Phone . whereby my neighbour in the queue tells me not to waste my time ,you wont get through . Two minutes later im giving him a sweet smile as i calmly let the lady on the other end of the line know that no leaving the next day will not suit me as I have booked a room that I'm going to be billed for even if I don't check in that night
  This conversation proceeded to be repeated as I moved up the hierarchical ranks of JetStar  till I finally got to the can do kind of assistant , whereupon I not only arrange tickets for my self but three groups that were in the immediate area . .
 After all the conversations I suddenly realised that around a 100 or so onlookers had been intently watching this once shy transgirl with the slightly deep voice,actually take charge in a calm and sweetly smooth way as I  manoeuvred my way into getting what I wanted from the assistant . I never knew I could be that take charge , an even me and Andrea had been chatting about how I can be a bit meek at times instead of standing up for what I need . Well not today and I did it with nothing more than a little bit of honey in my voice , and determination that I would see my friend that night

  So With Three Groups of new friends in Tow. We left Tullamarine Air port . where the first couple I helped dropped me off home so I could freshen up and have a relaxing coffee on my front porch ,while they went window shopping at Airport West . One Hour later true to their word they picked me up and we all headed of to Avalon Airport Where they bought me a drink And chatted about what each of us were doing for the weekend It was Russell's birthday and He And Anita were going to have a dinner at a fancy restaurant in Sydney ,as a way of celebrating  . They were a lovely couple maybe a year of retiring and great company while we waited for our flight . which ended up being delayed due to fog , as you can clearly see in the photo below

I know its a little difficult to see the fog but it must have been there, somewhere

As an aside I had a great chat with one of the girls at the checkin line she actually wanted to come to the ball I was going to as she thought it would be such great fun , where by the bogan ( i know i can be so judgemental at times ) decide he would sneer at me in distaste and flash his decayed and rotting teeth which looked like they had opened one too many beer bottles , and then one the other end of the spectrum walking past the bikies they cared not that im trans I got a smile from one and that was it

So 6 hours after I was due to land in Sydney I'm finally boarding the plane . quite an uneventful trip as most all were a bit flustered from all the delays and chatting was not an option with the two I got bundled with
So finally I land find my way to the shuttle bus and with just one our before the ball is to begin I flop onto the bed in my hotel room exhausted and ready for sleep already

Andrea gets to meet my sweet but prickly Caramel 

thankfully Andrea rocked up just in time to save from that fate. We chatted for ages before we decided we had better go down before we miss out on the first course which was quite nice the rest of the evening progressed nicely as we slowly started to eat and drink our way through the courses .We both met some really lovely people and I can say I enjoyed the company of all at my table> we bumped into a few friends from out of town so that made the night special as we wouldn't get to see them otherwise
       
                                  and then the band decided to play

For the life of me I cannot remember who they were but they played a selection of old rock that would b more at home for a bunch of beer swilling middle aged men than at a Seahorse ball . They guitarist with his jangly rickenbacker  and the singer who honestly couldn't work out if he wanted to be sharp or flat , so he reasoned on giving us both spectrum's of his voice ,without once settling on the in tune phase . that coup[led with the terrible acoustics of the venue and the I don't really care attitude from the sound engineer , sent Andrea and myself calling it a night at 11:30 where we headed up to my room for a glass of wine a great long chat followed by a deep and restful sleep