My check-in was a
little stressful. The check-in staff has to verify that the US will
allow me to enter the country before they will give me the tickets.
So they ask for my passport and where I will be staying. However the
addresses I gave them weren't being accepted by the US computer
systems. Turns out I was suppose to mention that I had actually
already been given a visa, whereas they just assumed I would be on a
tourist visa. Anyway they entered the visa details and everything
went through okay.
The baggage checks
and the customs were long, the lines were moving but they were long.
Even though the actual rooms used are relatively small because one
has to zig-zag through them you end up walking a long distance. Then
after that you are forced to walk through a long line of duty-free
shops and there is no shortcut even though they could have built one.
Then the gate I was going to was one of the furthest away from the
end of the line of shops. So much so that they put moving walk ways
in. All this walking was compounded by the fact that I had quite a
heavy bag on my back with most of the weight coming from the laptop I
am currently typing on.
Getting onto the
plane wasn't too much of a hassle because on this flight I am flying
premium economy and so the line was nice and short. Yay! However the
plane ended up being delayed by too obnoxious customers who must of
gotten lost or something because we ended up setting off 30+ minutes
from the scheduled departure time. Alas I suspect this type of thing
isn't as uncommon as it should be.
We had turbulence
for a large portion of the beginning of the flight. We weren't
allowed to take our seatbelts off during the first half hour due to
it being particularly bad. I am not talking about the few little
shakes at the start of the flight due to going through the main cloud
layer, I am talking about major jerks at cruising height. We were
served lunch with the turbulence still going. Towards the end of
lunch it did get to the point were you couldn't have a full cup of
liquid without it spilling. Though that eventually died down. They
did put seatbelt sign back on shortly after all the lunch had been
packed up but that ended up only being a pre-cautionary measure.
During the
turbulence and lunch I was watching Captain America. Not a bad film
really. I would recommend watching it if you haven't. It was only at
the end of the film did the turbulence eventually die down. After
that I started watching the social network. Not the greatest film in
the world but it was decent. I actually watched it in two parts. Half
way through they closed all the windows. This might have been because
were were moving into darkness though I don't actually know. At any
rate the cabin was dark, my eyes were sore and I so I decided to try
and get some sleep. Key word here was try as I didn't actually manage
but I started getting a head-ache so it was probably no bad thing
that I had my eyes closed. As I write this, around 8 hours into the
flight, the head-ache is coming back so I guess I am going to try and
get some sleep again.
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