Dec 18, 2008 21:50
So to catch you up on the flights and stuff. I had a spare seat next to me on the flight from the UK to Dubai, so I managed to get about an hour long nap. Then on the next flight (14 hours) I had a smelly arab next to me and didn't get a wink of sleep. I did watch lots of films though. Then I didn't sleep after Sydney either.
A vaguely interesting, but at the same time scary, thing happened at Birmingham Airport. I was waiting in the queue for the hand luggage scanners and stuff and an old man about 4/5 people in front of me flaked out. They got a chair for him and put a screen up and opened a different scanner so that we could be processed. When I got through the scanner and was putting my boots back on I saw them grabbing the defibrilator off the wall and go rushing back to him, by this time I could see he was on the floor. I hope he was ok afterwards. He was travelling alone, so it was probably pretty lucky that he flaked out there and not in the lounge or on the plane where they might have thought he was sleeping.
So last night I went to bed around 4/5pm and slept until around 11pm. Then I was up until just before 2am. I then went back to bed and slept until 5am. I took pictures of the sunrise over the lake and read a chapter of my book and then went back to sleep until just after 8am. I then got up and had breakfast coz I had the shakes really badly. I had second breakfast just before we went out to go to Edoras.
The weather was lovely, around 22/23C all day. It was quite windy out by Edoras though and I had to borrow KT's jumper. I got some nice pictures. See them at www.flickr.com/perdysha I can't be bothered to log back in there and do a photo blog.
Tomorrow I go to Akaroa and will be swimming with Dolphins on Saturday. I will be staying in a youth hostel, so I'm not sure if I'll get onling until I get back here on Sunday evening.
new zealand,
mount sunday,
nz,
holiday,
edoras