One and a half days later, after a last-minute trip to the Royal Botanical Gardens to see the flying foxes, we hurriedly returned to the flat to gather Chris's luggage (including 18 bottles of wine!)...

I don't believe Chris's load was any lighter for his return trip to the states! Here Chris poses for one last Aussie photo before we left for the bus that would take him to the airport....it's the only time I let him wear his Swagman's Hat in the city, but I figured we looked like tourists with all that luggage anyway!

Thus ended Chris's first trip to Australia. Not such a sad ending....I thought we were going to kill each other in the end--neither of us was too happy about having to lug all of that concealed wine 2.5 blocks to the sky-bus! But we made it with time to spare!