Hellloooooo, Hometown!
0 Comments Published by Oh Wayward One on 01 July 2010 at 7/01/2010 02:11:00 am.
OMG! I'm home!
Craziness ensued on the way here, complete with cancelled flights, anti-airline aggro, and jetlag. But otherwise I haven't had any setbacks so far, including scheduling conflicts, which despite the cancelled flight, were nearly all but caught up with no problem whatsoever thanks to my gramps not really feeling very up to "quality time" in KC when we arrived, so a quick meal and then we were out.
WOW summer here is awesome. I haven't been back here in the summer since 2003. So I kinda forgot. 11:00pm last night saw us going for a good 3mile run in a gorgeous humid but cool nighttime complete with full moon and fragrant flowering bushes etc etc etc. Awesome. Especially after sitting so long and being cooped up in the BACK ROW... you know, the one where you cant recline your seat? on our flight from NYC, with a baby on our laps.
THe 18 hour flight from Jozi was long, but not horrible. Except for the *$&# flight attendant who told us she was "too big" or was it "too active" to have a baby cot/bassinette on the flight and that we would be obligated to hold her on our laps for 18 hours. Um, FAT CHANCE. The Mr. made a big stink and yelled a little and eventually that bought us some sass-tis-faction in the way of said asshole flight attendant finding us a seat-exchange with another passenger who had an empty seat next to him, so that we could sit there and LJJ could have an empty seat to lay down in. Which was good, because she was wrecked from being in transit during her usual nap time and basically slept the whole way to Dakar and then the whole way to NYC after that.
NYC was great! even cancelled flight and everything. spending time with KC and setting up camp in Midtown was awesome. Seeing Xena worked out great too, and despite the whole back-n - forth to JFK twice due to the flight kerfuffle, we had a great day/night. And great Afghan food. And great Belgian beer and companionship.
more later!
Craziness ensued on the way here, complete with cancelled flights, anti-airline aggro, and jetlag. But otherwise I haven't had any setbacks so far, including scheduling conflicts, which despite the cancelled flight, were nearly all but caught up with no problem whatsoever thanks to my gramps not really feeling very up to "quality time" in KC when we arrived, so a quick meal and then we were out.
WOW summer here is awesome. I haven't been back here in the summer since 2003. So I kinda forgot. 11:00pm last night saw us going for a good 3mile run in a gorgeous humid but cool nighttime complete with full moon and fragrant flowering bushes etc etc etc. Awesome. Especially after sitting so long and being cooped up in the BACK ROW... you know, the one where you cant recline your seat? on our flight from NYC, with a baby on our laps.
THe 18 hour flight from Jozi was long, but not horrible. Except for the *$&# flight attendant who told us she was "too big" or was it "too active" to have a baby cot/bassinette on the flight and that we would be obligated to hold her on our laps for 18 hours. Um, FAT CHANCE. The Mr. made a big stink and yelled a little and eventually that bought us some sass-tis-faction in the way of said asshole flight attendant finding us a seat-exchange with another passenger who had an empty seat next to him, so that we could sit there and LJJ could have an empty seat to lay down in. Which was good, because she was wrecked from being in transit during her usual nap time and basically slept the whole way to Dakar and then the whole way to NYC after that.
NYC was great! even cancelled flight and everything. spending time with KC and setting up camp in Midtown was awesome. Seeing Xena worked out great too, and despite the whole back-n - forth to JFK twice due to the flight kerfuffle, we had a great day/night. And great Afghan food. And great Belgian beer and companionship.
more later!
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