Friday 24 January - flying to Adelaide

As usual we planned to be in the cruise departure city a day early just in case of travel problems. 
There was a bushfire near Canberra airport on Thursday afternoon and the airport was actually closed for a while.  But, it was open again later that night so we thought all would be okay.
Turns out, not so much. 
Qantas was still trying to catch up with planes not being where they needed to be after that closure, then on Friday morning storms closed Sydney airport.
So, Adam and I got to Canberra airport in plenty of time on Friday morning, our flights were reported as being on time, all good.
But then we started hearing about delays.  After quite a bit of confusion it turned out that even though the aircraft for our flight was sitting just outside, the flight crew were coming in from Sydney, so of course weren't in Canberra.  At this point, the flights scheduled from Sydney to Canberra were running up to four hours later than scheduled.
We finally ended up leaving Canberra a couple of hours late.  By this time, we were already going to miss our connecting flight in Melbourne, and Qantas had already rebooked us (and a stack of other people) on later flights.
We were due to arrive in Melbourne about 15 minutes before boarding was due to start for the new flight, but we were delayed out on the tarmac and in the end were getting off the plane basically as we were meant to be getting on the flight to Adelaide.
However, that flight was also delayed.  Adam asked at the counter and they assured him that our luggage would make it onto the flight to Adelaide, so, all good. But, we arrived in Adelaide only to discover that although most luggage - including my suitcase - had made it, four people's bags, including Adam's, were still in Melbourne.
As with our flight back from Brisbane in December, they promised to deliver the luggage to us, and to be fair it did arrive by about 7pm.  I'm so glad because I really wasn't looking forward to trying to buy replacement clothes for Adam; it's always such a trial because he's just a little fussy (in other words - incredibly difficult) about clothes.
Anyway, all is good.  Our room is in the Holiday Inn Express just down from Rundle Mall, so plenty of shops and restaurants nearby.  And, it's only a couple of minutes walk to the railway station so we can easily get a train out to the port to catch the cruise.
Dinner was an absolutely delicious Katsudon at a nearby Japanese restaurant. Then we just basically crashed after such an exciting (!!) day.