Tuesday 8 December 2015

We were disturbingly organised this morning, so much so that we had an hour to just sit at home with coffee in hand and relax! My OCD is let down though: I washed all the sheets and towels, but the final five towels are still in the dryer as they weren’t finished before we left, so hopefully someone passing by could remove and fold them for me (Polly? Robyn?) 😬

Our flight was so great and so calm that I was not fearful once. Everyone watched movies and entertained themselves, but none could sleep well naturally. As we walked up the aisle to our seats, Zac and Sam were very excited to see business class….and now understand what “cattle class” means…. I took earphones, not headphones, to the US so didn’t watch anything in the flight there. I corrected that this time by watching “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”,  cried through “Ricki and the Flash”, and watched all but 20 minutes (!) of “Kingsman: The Secret Service”.

The only hairy part of the day was our taxi rides to our hotel. I hoped our learner driver was not observing too closely – we travelled at 100-120km/h despite a speed limit of 80, indicators are optional, as is driving in one lane! Actually a sign along the highway said “get in lane”, so this might be a broader issue than our taxi driver!

We bought some sturdy but inexpensive suitcases to take to the US which we expect will need replacing soon (probably after all our once-in-a-lifetime adventures are done!), and a Samsonite suitcase we bought in the US to carry purchases from there home. Well I struggled to lift the Samsonite one and snapped the top handle! 😕 So a replacement may be on the shopping list at some point unless Ross can macgyver a fix.

We were in our two rooms by 12.15am (which is 3.15am at home), so decided to not make too many extensive plans for tomorrow. We will catch up on a little sleep and then seek out public transport to find breakfast 😉