4 Seasons In One Day...

4 Seasons, 3 Countries, 2 Flights, 1 Day

In the theatre we have a saying; 'Never work with children or animals'... I have decided that this concept works very well when dealing with long distance flights...

SPRING: It's all about the 'new life' in Spring... well, there was lots of 'new life' on this plane...

OK, so i mentioned previously that I may have been suffering from partying a little too hard prior to my flight... SO you can discover my joy at the amount of strollers and baby seats that were greeting me at check in! 12 hours of almost continual crying... I think the kids hand formed a gang and decided that they were going to take it in turns to cry. There were about four or five of them and it was like a relay...

SUMMER: When all you want to do is watch the cricket...

There has never been so much joy for one person, when on the menu on the plane for lunch was a Meat Pie, Mushy Peas, Mashed Potato and Gravy! So so SO GOOD! I would almost go as far as to say BEST.PLANE.FOOD EVER!

AUTUMN: The boring season when it isn't summer anymore but isn't cold enough to wear your nice warm clothes...

The guy sitting next to me got all excited about 5 hours into the flight. He turned to me and said "only another hour or so to go until we touch down. I had to explain that this was a 12 hour flight and we were only coming up to half way... he had read his ticket wrong and through that the 6am arrival in LAX was actually meant to be 6pm and he didn't fully realise about time zones etc... So the next 5 hours he fidgeted all the time. Combine crying, hangover, fidgeter and SO MUCH TURBULENCE (Seatbelt sign was on for at least 80% of flight) it turned out to be a rather long Autumn...

WINTER: Where it gets cold and all you want to do is sleep

The painful 4 hour stopover in LAX... First Starbucks Hot Chocolate of the trip to try and keep me awake... watch some tv on my laptop... then it is finally time to board the flight... You have read of how excited i was to have a meat pie, well then next most exciting thing happened next: I HAD THREE SEATS TO MYSELF! Guess who got to have a little nap on the flight into Toronto!

4 Seasons... 3 Hours Sleep... 2 Flights... 1 Very Tired Traveler!