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Leaving on a jet plane

Posted 09 Jun, 2006 at 11:01 by wendy in /World | Permanent link

Strangely this will be the first time I've been on a trans-atlantic flight all by myself. There's something about the fact that I'm going to spend all night travelling and arrive tomorrow morning at what feels like 4AM and need to negotiate customs all by myself, and then figure out how to get to my hotel, and probably discover that they won't let me check in until after lunch (which is going to feel like breakfast), and then I'm going to have to find something to do for several hours while massively sleep deprived, that kinda freaks me out. Hopefully the hotel lobby will have big comfy chairs and not mind me passing out in one of them...

I guess I'm better off than my roommate. She won't be arriving until 3am. It will be interesting to see whether or not I actually get my room because it's her name on the reservation (they've assured us repeated that this will not be a problem...but then these are the same people who told her to "Call back tomorrow mornign at 9am, so&so will be here for sure then" only to discover that 'tomorrow' was a national holiday...so we'll see). Worst case I've got the address of a hostel around the corner.

I'm probably worrying about this way too much. Time to go get on the plane, once I'm in the air and can no longer actually do anything about the situation I'll stop worrying :)

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"[T]his will be the first time I've been on a trans-atlantic flight all by myself."

Really? I thought the whole idea was to cram as many people on the plane as possible?
<*wink*>
Posted 2006/6/9 19:45:04 by
(Yeah, that was me above)
Posted 2006/6/9 19:45:34 by Kael
Heh...yeah. Ironically I wound up sitting next to someone I knew. It.s a small world sometimes.
Posted 2006/6/10 13:50:41 by Wendy
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