‘Star Trek’ World Premiere Trip – April 2009

On the morning of Sunday, March 29, I was bumming around the house enjoying a well earned day off. I was checking my regular online reading list when I found out that there were some tickets going on sale for the Star Trek premiere in Sydney. The sale started in a couple hours. A few seconds later I called Abigail. She was working and out of town. I remember completely expecting her to say no to my question of a last minute trip to Australia. We were moving soon and had bills to pay, etc. The trip would be expensive. Still, I wanted to go so I asked anyways… she said we could go if i got tickets. 

I could tell she didn’t think I’d get the tickets, but I didn’t think I would either. Then I thought “What the heck? Why not try it.” A few hours later tickets went on sale… I had multiple browsers opens on our computer and just hoped it would work.

It did, but that’s sort of obvious because of this post’s title. 

I immediately called Abigail with the news and then twittered about the success of buying a pair of ticket at 5:14 p.m. “I just got two tickets to the ‘Star Trek world premiere’ in Sydney, Australia!”

Friday, April 3 we left Chicago thanks to the wonder that is flying standby…after missing a few flights to LAX and changing gates I’m not sure how many times. Made it to SFO Friday night then took off and arrived at SYD on Sunday morning, April 5. It was odd skipping a whole day. It wasn’t just any day either. The day I turned 10,000 days old I was in a plane over the Pacific for 14 hours. Flying in economy no less. That’s not the best way to take such a long flight. We did, however, get to Australia, so I shouldn’t complain.

We spent a Sunday & Monday sight seeing. Monday night we caught a little bit of the pre-premiere movie setup and posted photos on my blog. Then the big day, Tuesday, movie premiere day! Abigail & I got there early afternoon, walked the red carpet, got a few photos and then saw the movie. It was amazing! You can see my review if interested.

You can find a photo gallery of our trip below:

Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Abigail and I took a trip last month to Rotterdam for a few days. We were able to visit friends there and enjoy some nice time away from work. You can find photos from our trip below:

I also put together a short video about flying kites on the beach:

Chandler Works Here

Chocolate

Rockefeller Center