How to begin! Going to bed the night before a real task, knowing how early the start the next day would be... the day of our first ever cruise. But somehow sleep came which lead to the chaotic but amazing day ahead of us... waking at 4.30am only to drive off to the airport in Melbourne for our ridiculously early flight time of 6am... the excitement outweighed the early morning and the little sleep from excitement the night before.

And this is where the amazing holiday began. My mother [who is in her 40s] and myself [22 at the time] were off our first ever cruise. I was as giddy as a school child at the airport [possibly a little to excited lol] taking photos of everything, and we hadn't even left Melbourne yet!

Then we were off! arriving in Sydney around 7.30-8am all easy so fair, we knew we had to somehow make our way to circular quay for our adventure, we hopped onto the airport train into town, taking us to exactly where we needed to be, only a short walk to the international cruise terminal. Read more