By the numbers

Some numbers from our trip...

Total number of flights: 8
Total hours spend in the air: 48
Total km's travelled by air: 36,693
Number of airline meals consumed: 7
Bags of pretzels eaten: 9

Hotel nights: 16

Highest temperature we enjoyed: +32C (Port Douglas, Dec 21st)
-lowest temperature: +10C (Melbourne, Dec 23)
Days that I wore shorts: 16/16

Number of Lego mini-figures we got to keep Josh entertained during the flights: 16
- Archie comics: 7

Number of times Josh went swimming: 8
Hours spent in the pool at the Sydney Olympic Pool: almost 3
Cost to get into the Sydney Olympic Pool waterpark: $19.70
Cost to take the train to get to the Sydney Olympic Park: $20



Cost to do the laundry:
- Melbourne: $3 wash, $3 dry, $1 per load for soap
- Port Douglas: $0 wash, $0 dry, $1 per load for soap
- Sydney: $8 wash, $8 dry, $2 per load for soap

Cost for several regular items on our trip:

Bottle of Coke
- Vancouver airport $2.50
- most places in Australia: $4.00

Bag of chips $2.50
Package of TimTam cookies: $2.97
Litre of milk: $1.59
Bananas: $2.59 / kg
Apples: $8 / kg
Pineapple: $1.99 each
Ice cream cone at McDonald's: 50 cents

Hotel in downtown Sydney on New Year's Eve: $670 / night

Internet cost
- Melbourne, $19.95 a day
- Port Douglas, $5.95 per hour
- Sydney $11 per hour, $25 per day
- at most McDonald's in Australia - free


I will post more pictures to Flickr later this week, and add one final posting for our blog.