It's Already an Adventure!

We have arrived!! We got here Thursday morning at about 7:35am Sydney time after a very long journey. There was quite a bit of stress about whether or not we had seats together, or seats at all and then whether or not our bags were going to make it here (because of the flight cancellation). As it turned out, we wound up having great seats in the bulkhead row so we had tons of leg room. When Abby was awake we would put a blanket down on the floor in front of us and she would play there. They did however lose two of our bags. They have located them still in Atlanta and they are being sent on the next plane out. They say we should receive them tomorrow or so. It was one of the camping backpacks and a bag with household stuff like towels and sheets. So, not too critical since the place we are in now is fully furnished with everything we need.
The leg from LA to Sydney was supposed to be 14 1/2 hours but was closer to 16 hours because we sat on the runway for awhile. Abby slept a couple of different times but once for 5 hours straight which was great. We were up walking with Abby quite a bit so we weren't sitting the whole time and thus managed to keep the swelling down in the ankles and feet (thanks for the tip Dunfey!)
Everyone we have met so far has been really nice. Jason's manager at work met us at the airport with another guy who works there too. They helped us with our ridiculous number of bags, gave us a great welcome bag with some starter food and got us a taxi. A maxi taxi to be exact...because of the number of bags.
I will post pictures and such soon but just wanted to let everyone know we arrived safely...finally!