The Trip - Tuesday to Thursday + time zone changes!
I realize now that I should have started this blog when I was in Canada, back when I was feeling fresh and pumped for the trip!!! Not that I’m not excited now, but with 4 hours and 13 minutes left of my 16 hour flight to Hong Kong, I’m feeling a little less than fresh!
The journey so far....well, Legs and I chatted from Ottawa to Toronto where we met our third traveling companion and indulged ourselves with Starbucks...beat the jet lag early we thought, caffeinate and get a jump on that 12 hour time change! We boarded the biggest plane I have ever been on, and in record time (the polar opposite of Caribbean Airlines!) and raved of the comforts of our home for the next day-ish. They have given us blankets and socks and toothbrushes and toothpaste, even headphones and wine for free and best of all a menu to order our dinner, which came in courses. The movie marathon started next, a cheesy one for dinner, Batman Returns which puts me to sleep everytime along with some other random background noise, and then Slumdog Millionaire as I awoke to only 6 hours left of my trip. Legs and I are testing the jetlag pills...so far so good!
And so I sit on the plane, trapped, but feeling pretty darn ok for 12 hours done, anxiously awaiting breakfast in an hour...frittata, yogurt, banana bread and fruit, good times! Soon Legs and I will learn our Malay essential phrases over coffee and land in Hong Kong...and then on to Kuala Lumpur, another 4 hours in the air! I would love to be able to tell you exactly where I am in the world, but the map is in Chinese! It seems we have just passed Chita and are heading to Ulan Bator...
Off to another movie!
Hong Kong airport at 4am is so not exciting, could be so exciting if all of the shops would open, but no! So instead we ate ramen noodles while waiting for starbucks and the shops to open! Off to kill another 3 hours till the flight to KL!
ps. I just paid 37 Hong Kong dollars for a black coffee, which is like $6 Canadian, which was more expensive than Legs’ latte!!!
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