It's Launch Time Folks!

It's Launch Time Folks!!

10PM

After weeks of preparation and a few minor anxiety attacks I have finally stepped foot on the vessel that will assist me on my adventure to "The Stray". As requested, I awkwardly shuffled around people as they glared at me with disgruntled looks in order to take photos of my seat for mom.

You're welcome.

Photo Cred: Austen Collins

After a strange encounter with a seven year old named Sully I am happily residing in a seat that has a bean bag foot rest, which I  have named "Useless". For the next 13 hours "Useless"and I will be indulging ourselves in some sweet airplane food and luxurious sleeping conditions.

12AM

So now that I am safely seated and tens of thousands of miles above sea, I am pleased to inform you that I am doing quite well up here. I have yet to experience the much anticipated anxiety attack, which is good news for the sleeping gentleman next to me. 

4 AM (At least I think so but who really knows?)

So now about the flight experience:

• Early on in the flight they handed out hot towels to "freshen up" while we waited for the flight to level out.
• I was given a small package which contained the following items; One eye mask, ears plugs, a pair of socks, a pen, and toothbrush with tiny toothpaste.
  
• Free beer! Yeah, that's right, freeeeeee as can be. It happened to be from New Zealand (imagine that), and was very tasty. I'm seriously considering staying in New Zealand just for the beer and wine. Also, they use real glasses for wine on the plane which I found impressive.
• The selection on the menu was advanced compared to any other flight menu I have read. I started to feel spoiled when they put this down on my tray table. 

• The movie selection is pretttttty dandy. All the free films you want and a decent selection as well.
• My face mask eye cover thingy that they provided certainly cam in handy although Im sure I looked like a complete idiot wearing it. I looked like an elf with my ears popping out of my hair due to the straps on the mask. The print that said " Sleeping beauty" felt quite contradictory. 

Once again, I have popped my Advil PM and Dramamine, I am off to sleep. Over and out pals.

6:45 AM (New Zealand Time)

I watched the sunrise this morning and it was beautiful. The sky glowed pink and orange above the cloud line, and each  crevice of the clouds below were lined with a sky blue color. It was one of the most beautiful sunrises I have seen yet. Surprisingly I slept quite well on the plane. I slept for about 4 hours at first and around 3 hours second, with a few hours in between filled with movies. 

Time to land in Australia! Hang on to the edge of your seats folks, more to come soon!