Arrived, tired, and no computer!!

So yes, we are here in CT! We got home last night at… just after midnight, and I would’ve written a small entry but Jake’s monitor for his puter was at his brothers place.

So… flight day was LONG! We got up at 6am, after getting to sleep at 3. So I was already utterly exhausted. Petie and Natey woke up to say goodbye to us, then we left. On the way to the car, one of the "feet" on Jake’s suitcase broke off, but it was a piece of poo already lol

We spent 2.5 hours in the line waiting to check our luggage in. That was annoying, but good coz Mummy was there with us so we could alternate for toilet breaks and not leave Jake alone. 🙂 The lady who checked our bags in was rather ditzy, she had to ask about 3-4 times what the "code" for Connecticut was. How hard is it to remember CT? lol And then she said she could only give us one of the boarding passes for the connecting flight because mine was an American Airline flight (on the same plane as Jake’s Qantas flight) so she did the Qantas one, but it was under my name…. and it had the flight # as AA164 which totally weirded me out.

Customs took all of 2 minutes, if that. There was no people waiting, and it was all mmm easy. Then the bag-sccan thingy bit took hardly any time too. So we were all ooo over how fast that bit was.

Because our flight was stopping in Auckland first, we didn’t get the bag search and pat-down in Melbourne. So we just got on the plane, and had a short (3 hours!) flight, with a meal of pasta with chicken on the way. Once inAuckland, we had to leave the plane, go walking for ages to get back to the gate where the plane landed, and on the way get our bags scanned again and have us gone over with those metal detector dealies. No pat-down, so that was ok. It was funny coz we were reminiscing about the other times we were at that airport, and how familiar it all was to both of us.

We sat at the terminal for about an hour and then we were on the way to LA! That flight was just… excessive. I was watching Memento, but the whole entertainment system (movies/tv/games) screwed up so they shut it all down and rebooted it, the whole thing taking about an hour and a half. Which was the most boring part of le flight, I just pulled faces at Jake most of the time. And complained that I was tired and hungry. But they brought us dinner eventually!!! That was fish and rice and veggies, and salad and all those other extra bits. SO GOOD! And once we were done and the tray was taken away, the movies were working again, so I watched the rest of Memento, and then some Mythbusters. Sometime during that show, everyone else went to sleep, including Jake. I wasn’t tired yet, so I watched more tv until I was sleepy.

A few hours later, the lady sitting in front of me opened her window shade and the most beautiful sunrise was there to be seen. All stripey and shiny and stuff. Seeing that made me sleepy, so I got settled and… Jake woke up. And then food was brought, so I only got half hour of sleep. Because I just woke up, I couldn’t eat the breakfast, so I just drank the juice and tried to go back to sleep. I think I managed.

Not long after we were in LA, and we waited for everyone else to leave the plane coz we were told to do that and then they would get us assistance. So once we left there, this really nice lady was waiting, and she led us to the customs area, we didn’t have to wait in line so we took about 5 minutes to get 4 of us through the customs (there was another couple getting help as well) and then, while Jake and I gathered our bags, the helper lady went and got our boarding passes for the next flight and made sure we were seated together as well. So that was awesome and stressfree and just awesome.

We got to the gate and they were already boarding so we just went straight on, sat down, and we were off. The plane was crappy compared to the Qantas one, and having to pay  for food? I’ve never experienced that on a plane before. And it smelled funny. So I just tried to sleep the whole time, and before we knew it, we were home and Lisa and Matt were waving to us.

The bags took forever to come out, but once they did we got them pretty quickly, and started on the many hour ride home. We tried to get some food on the way home, but all we could find was a Burger King, so I just had some more juice while Jake scoffed a burger.

When we got home, there was Kristen and her friend waiting for us, so I went through all the bags to find the souvenirs for people and dig out our shower stuff coz we were STINKY! We didn’t end up getting to bed till about 2am.

This morning I woke up at 8:30, exhausted but unable to sleep anymore, and joined Jake in the tv watching and juice drinking. For 24 hours all I had was juice, so now my body is… rebelling. We went with Lisa to get some groceries, and we bought so much stuff so we are pretty set for a while.

Lisa made casseroles for lunch, I didn’t eat much of it though coz it sent me almost running for the bathroom. Doubt it was the food, but it happened to Jake too. Prolly just the shock of eating real food after so long flying and such.

We were both waiting for Nick to arrive this afternoon coz he was meant to bring Jake’s monitor back, but he didn’t.Instead he got one from the parents room and set that up… only to find that Jake’s puter is rather crapped now. Apparently its the motherboard or something  else rather very useful. So we gotta get a new one.

So I’m writing this entry on Lisa’s laptop. Typing on a laptop is really rather annoying coz I keep hitting the mouse thing accidentally and then weird stuff happens to the screen!

Off to catch up on my favourites. Hope you’re all having marvellous times. Don’t know how often I will update until we get a compy of our own again. I’ll try to be as regular as I can.