In Transit

I have an hour left until boarding commences for the final leg of my journey. Naturally I have gravitated to the nearest Internet access point to blog. I think it's a comfort thing.

The flight was uneventful. Largely because I slept for more than half of it. I tried to stay up as late as possible to help adjust to the time difference. So I ended up watching three episodes of House, two episodes of Boston Legal and listening to the 1987 Original London Cast recording before dozing off.

I must admit I was impressed with the cabin lighting (in a geeky kind of way). I liked that it changed gradually over time from a tequila sunrise orange on the ceiling and deep sky blue on the sides to include a twinkling starscape on the ceiling. As the flight progressed the orange became blue and then all the lights dimmed leaving nothing but the "stars". Cute.

The lady sitting next to me was going to the World Equestrian Games and we had a great time watching the take off and landing on the monitors in front of us. The plane had cameras mounted on the side and under-carriage (if that's the right word) of the plane. For most of the journey there was nothing to see. A lot of black followed by more black. Thirty-five minutes from Dubai we caught our first glimpse of sunlight and we knew we were close.

When the announcement was made that it was 33 degrees in Dubai there was a bit of a stir in the cabin. When they followed that with rising to a top of 45 there was an unanimous groan.

The only thing I'd change about my flight over here is finding the footrest. It truly sucks to be short. My feet couldn't touch the ground while seated (ha ha ha) and the person in front had reclined their seat fully so I couldn't actually see much of the feet area. Happily I have located the footrest for future reference.

I seem to be a fan of buying bags and as such have increased my handbag to a small case so that I don't lose my new jacket (from Gene), A Short History of Nearly Everything (from Dad) or my other items in my handbag. Dad was right, I should and could have carried something larger. Problem fixed though!

From what I gather I won't have enough time to worry about my footrest on the flight to Doha. Not long to go now! Yay!