Friday February 27th

We departed 3pm today on V Australia’s maiden flight with Sir Richard, Brett Godfrey, Catriona Rowntree, Marcia Hines and numerous other celebrities, media and Virgin staff. My partner is excited, as this is her first trip to North America.

The pre-launch party in Sydney last night was a blast. It was held on Cockatoo Island – a surreal setting on an abandoned island in the middle of Sydney Harbour where Hugh Jackman’s famous Wolverine movie was being filmed.
The logistics behind the event was certainly appreciated by myself considering the amount of logistics and pre-work required to run the seminar division of my company.

The pre-launch party consisted of 1000 people ‘ferried’ to Cockatoo Island from Circular Quay. I was able to chat to Derryn Hinch on the ferry who had travelled from Melbourne to be at the event and he seemed like a nice guy.

We were fortunate enough to have access to the VIP area at the party and met many interesting people, including numerous actors and actresses who apparently are TV stars on Home and Away and Neighbours. Friendly bunch and I promise them I’ll watch Home and Away and Neighbours at least once to check their acting talent. We also met up with some friends at the party, so it was great to reconnect and all in all it was a great night which finished in the early morning.