I had a terrible nights sleep, not due to holiday jitters but because I heard my baby girl at 2am trying to ask her brother to turn off his industrial fan because it sounded like the house was a giant Kenwood mixer. I ended up having to unlock the door and turn it off as it was intense! However it showed that my mother radar is always on even though the aforementioned baby is 19!
Crisis averted, but unfortunately I stayed awake til 230am. I had a quick catnap and sprung out of bed at 530 to get ready for my Sunday morning walk with Vicki and Jo. The Esplanade put on a gorgeous show of violet tinged sky and a bluey grey morning sea. I felt rejuvenated, thank God for that 'cos i had so much to do. After a long chatty coffee at Coffee Club i headed to office works to pick up earphones and a splitter. Due to my holiday micromanaging obsession I've already down loaded all the museum and church audio guides that we'll need via Rick Steves.
Back at the ranch, EJ had still not packed or shaved . I quickly hung up the washing and cut his hair. We leisurely packed his gear but 10 minutes before my big sis picking me up he realized that he had no idea where his passport was. He had a man's look in his drawers and was playing the blame game so i had a woman's look in the carefully searched drawers and found it just in time. I was just recovering from a hissy fit when my sister and her partner arrived.
They dropped us off and we joined the queue, after a while i realized it was the wrong one so off we trotted! My beautiful daughter Ruki and her husband came and sat with us until we had to go through customs. It was REALLY happening soon we were boarding our plane to HongKong.
My joy quickly turned to a state of grumpiness as we were in the weird aisle in the middle - emergency exits either side. It also meant that I was the bloody toilet monitor as for some bizarre reason green does not trigger vacant and red has nothing to do with occupied. I spent most of the seven hours pointing out the vacant toilets so that wanna be poo-ers didn't hover their rear end in my face while stupidly standing in front of 4 vacant toilets.
Other question why do people need to urgently use the toilet as soon as the seat belt sign is off??? Is it a compulsion or a necessity and really should a 30 plus woman be wearing a onesie ? Apart from the fact that we couldn't sleep due to people using our legspace as a public thorough fare the flight was fine.
Once in HongKong we located our transit lounge and then made a beeline for our different priorities. Me - light as air dumplings. Eric - inhaling heavy toxic fumes in a little room with sallow faced people. Point of interest at the airport was a big duck made of Tuna Tins. Why? I have no idea.
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