The Blue Room

So here I am spending my first night alone in an airport. We got into Melbourne at 9:30am and right now it's about 8pm... I've done well so far. The other girls left around 5, I'd tried to see if I could get a vacancy on their flight but since I had gotten a super cheap ticket to begin with I would have had to almost buy another one to switch flights. But really, I think out of the bunch of us, I really lucked out: The Blue Room. Before I explain what this means, let me just give some back story.. All those other kids are having to spend the night in Wellington, NZ before their 6am flight to Christchurch, where I 'm meeting the rest of my four girls. But we found out that all airports in NZ have "curfews" for whatever reason and close after the last flight. So they're going to have to mosey around Wellington for about five hours. I, on the other hand, am in pretty good comfort. When we arrived we had decided to check out the city during the girls' long layover. Unfortunately, we forgot that today was Good Friday and the reception desk told us that most of the city would be closed and would be pretty pointless to go check out. So we whined and moaned for a minute before she remembered the Blue Room. Virgin is the only other real major airline here besides Qantas, and they bought the former VIP lounge and turned it into the Blue Room. For five bucks a day you can come and go as you please here.. the room's got a pool table, a small theater, a "Tech Deck" which I am sitting at right now, a mini putt-putt, PlayStation, and many random LCD TVs playing a variety of things. This does unfortunately close from 9pm-5:30am, but really, a freakin great deal. And it feels much safer alone here in this sparsely populated lounge area then out in the big airport with thousands of people milling around. Hopefully I can get some kind of sleep out there when this place closes, but until then I'm reaping the benefits. Hahah. Ok, I'm going to get going. Will try to update sometime in New Zealand (if I'm not busy having the time of my life!). MUAH.