Safe n Sound, almost

It may come as a surprise to some of you, but we all arrived safe and sound in Sonaisali. Our gear turned up, most of it at 1:30 in the morning.

The first Kangaroo court was held at Sydney Airport. Tyson Damp was sentenced to 24 hours of public humiliation for his vagrant systematic abuse of tour property. In testimony for Tyson, Gary Damp made no attempt to support his son, distancing himself by providing evidence against his own son. The Justices immediately swooped on this evidence by Gary and sentenced Gary for the crime of "Unsupportive Father" having to carry the same heavy burden of public humiliation as Tyson.

The flight was a bit rough, a little bit too rough for young Dom Allen. Before we had even taxied off the runway Dom was dumping his lunch across four seats. He is up and running today, Jim did a magic job holding the plastic bag closed against Dom's mouth to maximise the spray effect. Our plane was delayed for 30 minutes for cleaning.

The boys had stocked up with lollies and chocolates in duty free before boarding. It was great to see the lollies being shared by all the boys. It was noted that young Louie Barkley, led the feeding frenzy, having bought half a kilo of chocolate, he quietly sat on his own and ate it all.

Barry Towns continued his fine form from home to plane. He slept the whole way to Fiji.

Louie Wayling, James Allo and Tom Hargreaves an unsavoury looking group of boys were stopped by customs and body searched. It was a surprise to us all that their dad's got through, images of Schappele flirted through our heads. Their penance wasn't heavy, customs ordered the boys to clean their rugby boots before entering Fiji.

All in all, the boys were well behaved on the plane. Early hours on the tour......

The honour of first Fiji Bitter goes to John Cahill, within 45 seconds of clearing customs, before picking up his bags he had a cold one in his hand. 3 minutes later he dropped it and smashed it to pieces delighting the thirsty dads who didn't manage to buy one!

Happy days ahead!