A long day of travel

Yesterday was filled with flying and waiting. We left Port Douglas at around 9:00 am for our 12:45 pm flight to Darwin. We faced a 6 (growl) hour layover there after the 3 hour flight. The airport is the smallest international airport in Austraila so we placed our bags in a locker and headed to a local shopping center. We thought it cost too much to get all the way in to the central business district,so this would have to do. Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia felt like the wild west. The 4 wheel drive utes and vehicles all had "roo bars" and long poles attached to the front for communication in the outback. The shopping center was like most any other in Australia, we basically just walked and looked. John had good Turkish pizza, I had bad Thai soup. Upon leaving we walked through a waiting area for an urgent care when I noticed a large rat on a chair. As I bolted through the front door, John went back to let them know there was a large rat waiting in the waiting area. It didn't make the ladies in the office happy, needless to say! We boarded the next 2.5 hour flight on to Bali and arrived at this exotic place just before 10:00pm. It has been 14 years since we were here last, can't wait to start this next part of the journey.