This one last shot of Sydney is from the Qantas First Class lounge at the airport. We got to hang out there because Tom is Emerald status in the One World Alliance (you can read about his master mileage achievement here.) It was a pretty spectacular lounge, with gourmet meals, free booze & free spa treatments! We didn't have enough time to get massages, but now we know if we ever make it back!
The actual trip back was fine... I didn't sleep at all between Sydney & LAX, but I watched about 6 movies: Slumdog Millionaire, Tangled, Another Year, Red, and a couple others I've already forgotten! Also, a lady fainted right in front of my seat. That was pretty exciting - I had to press the attendant call button for help. I was impressed with how calm the Qantas folk were about it, they handled everything really well and the lady was fine after a few minutes.
During a brief layover in LA, we ran into our wonderful friend Jimmy in the Admiral's club. He was in LA for work and was on the same flight back to NYC as us! He and Tom were both business class, so they ended up sitting together, not too far from a certain Matt Damon(!), and enjoyed the luxury deserved by someone with Emerald status (see above,) while I finally got some sleep in the back with the rest of the steerage (ha ha!)
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