Getting up at 5am to get the 6.30 am plane to Melbourne takes some getting used to but no more than getting up at 5am to catch the 6.30 plane to Melbourne that doesn’t leave until 7.15.  Arriving in Melbourne we were greeted with their glorious weather… Rain. By the time the plane touched down in Sydney yes I said Sydney. We were four and a half hours into our trip to Los Angeles and I had heard the safety speech twice and by the time we left Sydney for our intended destination I thought I …