The Qantas airplane's camera display as we prepared for landing in Sydney.   It took us about 32 hours to get from our house in Indiana to our hotel in Sydney.  The only bad part of the whole trip was LAX (I won't describe the nightmares we endured both coming and going through that insane LA airport).  The 14-hour LA-to-Sydney flight was fine.  Qantas flies in style, serving out two full meals free of charge and providing individual TV screens so one can pick one's own movie.  It is a haul from one hemisphere to the other, heading southwest I forget how many thousand miles.  With Rose's (even a bit my) dog obsession, we really enjoyed watching Eight Below, pulling at our heartstrings rooting for the abandoned dogsled team to make it through the winter even as we ourselves headed slightly in the direction of Antarctica ourselves (the protagonist and team chief returns to Christchurch, New Zealand, looking for a way back to save his dogs).