David Around the World: December 19, 2014 Last Day in Cairns, Last Minute Shopping, Leave for Sydney

I slept like a rock last night. I guess a little exercise and excitement will do that to a fella. I still can't get over the great dive from yesterday and again wish I had planned a second day.
Today, I need to start figuring out how I'm going to get all this stuff back. I decide I just need to get a bigger bag that can hold about 60 lbs. That will mean I will just have two bags to haul home plus my backpack. So I venture out to the Central Cairns Mall about six blocks away. Its about 11AM, since I took my time at the hotel to have breakfast and finish off reading Huckleberry Finn. I now have just one classic book left to read before I get home. It's already over 90 degrees here and I think how cold it will be back in Tulsa.
Tomorrow will be a long trip. My first leg from Sydney to LA will take about 15 hours. In LA I have a 2 hour layover before heading to Salt Lake City. Unfortunately, I have a six hour layover in SLC before getting into Tulsa around midnight. So I should have plenty of time to read.
I get to the mall in Cairns and find a few more things for the kiddos. I also find a perfect duffel bag like the one that Bronce let me borrow, so everything should fit into two bags.
So I'm all set for my flight from Cairns to Sydney, where I will spend the night at the Holiday Inn at the airport, until my flight to LA tomorrow on Delta.
I get to the Cairns airport, where I have to pay over weight charges for one of my bags. It's a domestic flight, so I don't get the privilege to have a bag around 60 lbs. No worries, I just want to get to Sydney tonight. Again, I use the new entertainment system on Virgin Australia that uses their system, but use your computer or other devices to receive the signal. You can even start using it while you are sitting on the plane before take-off. I literally can get a hundred movies and TV shows to pick from, also over 80 albums and individual songs from the music queue. Makes so much more sense.
I land in Sydney after the three hour flight and get the free shuttle to the Holiday Inn hotel and remember the last Holiday Inn I was at...in Manaus, Brazil, just before my trek on the Amazon River. Wow that seems so long ago.
Well tomorrow will be a long day.
I will write one more blog tomorrow before closing off my Round the World Blog for good.