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Day 17 and 18 – July 12 and 13 – Fly to Melbourne

I am writing this post before we actually fly but I don’t think I will have much of a chance to do the post on our first long travel day.…

I am writing this post before we actually fly but I don’t think I will have much of a chance to do the post on our first long travel day. We leave Honolulu at 10:15 am tomorrow and fly for nine hours to Auckland, New Zealand. We have a two-hour layover in Auckland and then have a four-hour flight from Auckland to Melbourne. We will cross the international date line so we leave Honolulu on Sunday, July 12 and land in Auckland on Monday, July 13. We actually land in Melbourne a little after 9:00 pm on Monday, July 13. We will then have to go through passport control, customs, pick up our rental car, and then drive a little over an hour to Geelong, Victoria, where we have an AirBnB. I get will get my first experience driving on the left side of the road in Australia. Looking forward to that (NOT!).

Here are some pictures from our short stay in Honolulu so I have some pictures for this post. Our next post will be from Australia!

Honolulu pictures!

Our hotel was next to the airport and right below the highway. We walked along here to a pizza place and then to a little park by the water.
The Kaahi lagoon near the Honolulu airport. We walked a mile and a half to here after getting dinner. Was a little underwhelming after being on Hawai’i. But, we did get to see the water and some fish on Oahu. We didn’t have much time for anything else.
Looking at Honolulu from the Kaahi Lagoon Beach Park. The clouds kept sprinkling us with a light drizzle that was cool and refreshing on a warm evening.
Looking west to Ka’ala, the volcano on the western end of Oahu. Was a pretty sunset to end a short day. Weird to think that we will not be back in the United States until November after we take off tomorrow.

The link below is to a Denver7 news interview of a player that Tari and I coached at Grandview. She is now playing professionally on the Denver Summit FC team. The interview focuses on her good fortune of playing high school, college (she played three years at University of Colorado), and now as a professional all in Colorado.

https://www.denver7.com/sports/denver-summit-fc/kicking-back-memories-denver-summit-goalkeeper-reunites-with-grandview-high-school-coach

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