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Australia June 2018 Day 1: Holly and I flew separately  from Mary, she had found a different flight using her credit card miles.  Mike dropped off me and Holly in New Orleans for our short flight to Houston. We had a long layover in Houston before our 9:00 pm flight. We lucked up and had a vacant seat in between us for the 17 1/2 hour flight to Sydney, so we had more space than usual. On the flight we had a few drinks and watched several movies while dozing on and off, trying to get some decent sleep. When we finally landed it was 6 am on Monday, we had left Houston at 9 pm on Saturday, so we missed Sunday (and Father's Day) completely. When we got to the airport we quickly went through customs and me and Holly went to grab our bags. As we were trying to leave the airport we saw Mary running up to us (she had landed about 10 minutes  before us), telling us that her bags didn't make it...but Chris Hemsworth was on her flight! We had to do some investigating to fig...