"This Is It"

October 29th--We slept late this morning...basically we had to make ourselves get up at 9:15. Obviously, you suffer from jetlag even with a 4 hour time difference. I think it's more from not much sleep the night before on the plane than the time difference. Anyway, we ate breakfast in the restaurant downstairs from our apartment before getting ready for the day. We decided to take it easy today since we were all really tired. We had seen on TV that the Michael Jackson movie "This Is It" was playing here in Australia. It was actually all over the news here because one of the dancer's in the performance was from Australia. So, we decided to go see the movie. It was playing at the IMAX theater at the Fox Studios area. By the time we took the bus to the area, it was time for the movie. All 4 of us really enjoyed the movie. Abby was dancing to Billy Jean and Austin was singing "Beat It, Beat It". It was really good and showed how wonderful of a musician, dancer and performer MJ was...truly the King of Pop. After the movie, we went to the playground in the area for a couple of hours. The weather is absolutely gorgeous here...very springlike. So, it's really nice to sit outside. We left the playground to find some dinner in the area. We went to eat at ABLAZE which should actually be named "The world's largest hamburgers". We ordered way too much food because the portions were enormous, but the price showed it too. Australia is one expensive place. Of course, we had gotten ourselves accustomed to the prices in China and Thailand. After dinner, we went back to the apartment for bedtime. We were off to bed early because we booked a tour for the next day that started at 7:30am.