Not a great flight – part of the entertainment system wasn’t working so new movies and TV shows were not available which meant I picked a few old classics – The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for example. I also loaded up a music play list of classics and spent most of the flight in the 1960s and 70s.
Screaming babies to my right and front, luckily not too near and thankfully the noise cancelling headphones did the job. Unfortunately they couldn’t cancel out the 2 annoying 8 year old girls in front of me who argued with each other most of the flight or the other young girl behind me who seemed to want to alternately push and pull my seat. As usual I didn’t sleep.
I was very grumpy then looked at the camera mounted on the tail of the plane and realised I was sitting in a seat in a metal tube 25000 feet up travelling at 600km an hour, so got a bit of perspective. Mind you, when someone advertises an airline that bans kids below the age of 16 I’ll be the first in the queue.
Speaking of queues we arrived in LA on time and spent an hour in the immigration queue – they finger print each hand and take a photo. Got past that and then queued up for customs. Once through that one headed to the terminal to get the flight to Montreal so queued up for that security check. Finally got through, queued for the toilet and then for a coffee. So far my holiday has consisted of the views of the back of people’s heads.
We’ve now been up for 22 hours, another 2 hours to the next flight which is another 5 hours. I hope someone is about to make a breakthrough in teleportation soon.
So I expect to get to the hotel in Montreal and collapse, will update again tomorrow.