M. and I flew out from Sydney to Tokyo in the evening. Before that, we dropped Scully off at Loki and Rach’s place. We stopped off on the way at Maggio's, our favourite Italian bakery, to get a selection of small morsels: mini cannolis, tarts, cakes, slices, and so on. At their house we had a morning tea while we watched Scully and their dog Bella go berserk playing with each other. The two dogs get along really well and don’t get to see each other very often, so they go a bit bananas when they do.
After a bit of a catch up with our friends, we left Scully there and headed home to finish packing for the trip. We had plenty of time as our flight didn’t leave until after 20:20. I even managed to clean the house, wash and dry all the dirty dishes and cutlery, vacuum, and so on, so that we actually come back to a clean house (for once!).
We caught the train to the airport, where it wasn’t busy at all. We had already checked in and gotten digital boarding passes online, so we went straight through customs and the security check, and were done and inside the terminal within about five minutes. So we had plenty of time to kill before boarding our flight. I browsed the duty-free liquor and bought a fancy bottle of Venezuelan rum and a Highland Park "Wings of the Eagle" 16-year-old whisky to be picked up on our way back into Sydney. M. grabbed a coffee and then we walked around the various shops for a bit. Eventually we were hungry enough for dinner and went to the Wolfgang Puck bistro where we both ordered caesar salads, because we didn’t want anything too heavy just before a flight, although I added grilled prawns to mine. But then M. spotted the fried garlic and parmesan pizza dough balls served with cheesy tomato sauce, and had to order one of those as well.
We boarded our plane and pushed back from the terminal about right on time, getting airborne soon after. There was a dinner service, which we'd said we wouldn't really bother with, but we both got the meal, me the braised beef and M. the ratatouille pasta bake. They came with raspberry blondies for dessert, which we ate.
M. watched some movie while I started watching episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I watched the first two and thought they were pretty good. Then I tried to snooze as well as possible, which wasn't really well at all. I was basically awake the whole flight.