USA trips are always memorable.. the USA is like a fantasy land, exactly as you see it on TV. In Las Vegas, the people do party for 24/7, and everything is sold super sized hence all the overweight people (although Australia currently holds that title). Nevertheless the Americans are still our brothers, we came from the same mother (Great Britain) except they want nothing to do with the family... like the typical rebellious child who ran away from home, while the Australians are convicts who stay loyal to their mother because they can't fend for themselves.
Going to the USA is a struggle in itself. It takes approximately 14hours to get there, and that is IF you are lucky enough to get a direct flight. My cousin and I in 2004 managed to nab Air New Zealand tickets to SanFrancisco. We didn't find out that we were stopping at New Zealand until that very day. Nevertheless we knew that 14+ hours worth of flying would be incredibly boring so we came up with a very smart plan:
1) We were to preserve conversations and only talk if abosolutely necessary, therefore we would need to exhaust all the entertainment on the plane before talking. (IPODS, movies, books etc)
2) We would try to sleep as long as we could.
As I've never flown Air Newzealand before, we weren't sure about the quality of the planes (all we really cared about was the entertainment). When we set foot on the plane, it was sparkling clean and awesome. The pilot announced that we were the first customers to experience the new Air New Zealand planes with state of the art on demand movies. My cousin and I were so excited that we decided not to use any of the entertainment in the first leg of the trip so we could save it for the 12 hour flight. Instead we just sat there in silence for 3 hours in antipication of our next leg to the USA.
After our first leg, we got off at Christchurch(or Auckland?) and were happy that we didn't talk to each other at all. As we got onto the next plane, we found out that it was a totally different plane!! The plane was old, seats looked festy and there were no individual screens!! Even worse was that the projector was the old fashioned ones that had the 3 colours!! We were devestated...
The 12 hours went by sooo long. There was also this vietnamese girl sitting next to me who couldn't stop talking and claimed that we were long lost relatives because her surname was Phung. She basically explained her whole life story to me. When she finally went to the bathroom, I used it as my opportunity to finally fall asleep *phew*.
Lesson to be learned:
1) Don't wait, use entertainment when it is available.
2) Book an aisle seat so you won't be stuck talking to randoms who claim to be your relative.
3) Don't travel via Air newzealand.
Going to the USA is a struggle in itself. It takes approximately 14hours to get there, and that is IF you are lucky enough to get a direct flight. My cousin and I in 2004 managed to nab Air New Zealand tickets to SanFrancisco. We didn't find out that we were stopping at New Zealand until that very day. Nevertheless we knew that 14+ hours worth of flying would be incredibly boring so we came up with a very smart plan:
1) We were to preserve conversations and only talk if abosolutely necessary, therefore we would need to exhaust all the entertainment on the plane before talking. (IPODS, movies, books etc)
2) We would try to sleep as long as we could.
As I've never flown Air Newzealand before, we weren't sure about the quality of the planes (all we really cared about was the entertainment). When we set foot on the plane, it was sparkling clean and awesome. The pilot announced that we were the first customers to experience the new Air New Zealand planes with state of the art on demand movies. My cousin and I were so excited that we decided not to use any of the entertainment in the first leg of the trip so we could save it for the 12 hour flight. Instead we just sat there in silence for 3 hours in antipication of our next leg to the USA.
After our first leg, we got off at Christchurch(or Auckland?) and were happy that we didn't talk to each other at all. As we got onto the next plane, we found out that it was a totally different plane!! The plane was old, seats looked festy and there were no individual screens!! Even worse was that the projector was the old fashioned ones that had the 3 colours!! We were devestated...
The 12 hours went by sooo long. There was also this vietnamese girl sitting next to me who couldn't stop talking and claimed that we were long lost relatives because her surname was Phung. She basically explained her whole life story to me. When she finally went to the bathroom, I used it as my opportunity to finally fall asleep *phew*.
Lesson to be learned:
1) Don't wait, use entertainment when it is available.
2) Book an aisle seat so you won't be stuck talking to randoms who claim to be your relative.
3) Don't travel via Air newzealand.
3 comments:
I knew there was a stopover at Auckland. Read your itinerary man.
The itinerary didn't mention Auckland, it said it was a direct to San Fran
hahahahahaha
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