Flying To Australia!

A few days ago we arrived Down Under!
We had an early morning flight out of Ho Chi Minh City to Malaysia, where we would wait over 7 hours for our next flight to Perth. We passed the layover doing school and watching movies in the TV lounge near our gate. It was pretty uneventful.
The sun was rising as we descended over a new continent. Unlike Asia none of us had ever been here and there was so much to anticipate!

During the flight we were repeatedly reminded by the cabin crew to declare any items we were bringing into the country so as soon as we cleared customs we went to declare our Vietnamese honey, Cambodian pepper, Vietnamese candies and Vietnamese snake wine.
Our honey was refused because there was too much of it and it would endanger the local bee community. The pepper corns passed but no one was quite sure of what to think about the baby cobra in a jar. After a lot of hemming and hawing the border police were called and told us that this item would have to be confiscated. We waited for the officers to fill out heaps of paperwork while they explained to us their reasoning. Baby cobras are considered endangered and Australia makes it a policy to refuse them to combat animal trafficking. Oops. Oh well, We all agreed it was probably good that none of those things ended up where they weren't supposed to be and now we have a good story.