What a Crazy Morning!

We woke up to leave for Cairns in plenty of time...so we thought. In all of our travel experiences through the years, this was one of the worst ever! We went to the domestic terminal and went to check in at Quantas airlines. We were told we weren't on that airline and to go to jet star which was one terminal down. We got to jet star and were told we needed to go to the international terminal which was 5km away and we had to be there in 15 minutes. We grabbed a taxi and headed toward the new terminal. Upon arrival, they were asking for passengers going to Cairns (we weren't the only ones running late) and put us ahead of the long line to check in. We then had to pay because our bags were over the 20kg limit. We rushed to customs and then through security. Upon leaving security, I was stopped for a random additional security check for explosives. Chris went ahead to the gate. After passing the check, I rushed to the gate. I was wearing a shirt, sweatshirt, and added my north face jacket when trying to lighten my luggage-so needless to say I was very hot while getting to the flight.
We made it to the flight and are really considering today to be a day by the pool relaxing but guess we will decide when we arrive!
We will plan for our return trip to Sydney to catch our flight to LA much better than we did for this flight. Ha ha!