the flights + Oregon

OK, so my contact for our business class upgrade fell through so we were in 'cattle' class for the long haul flight which wasnt TOO bad haha. The flight began well enough, aside from the multiple possible future annoyances that were surrounding out seats (aka very very little people who shouldnt be allowed passports, others refer to them as 'babies'), at least they all made it through take off without crying. Most actually slept for the first few hours of the flight - probably because their parents made sure they were all drugged up- however as soon as these little people woke, their energy levels rose quite quickly providing much fodder for them to laugh, jump and run about. So, as a view that I have held for some time now, was reinforced on this flight and the next- TALL PEOPLE WERE NOT MEANT TO FLY!!! Dickie and I were sitting together and I convinced Dickie to let me sit in the aisle seat (for obvious reasons, more leg room). However, with the aisle came the people who made use of the aisle. This meant that the leg room was compromised by my fellow passengers who frequented the bathroom at the back of the plane (oh, we were sitting right towards the end of the plane, very close to the bathroom). The best times for maximising my leg room became the times during turbulence when everybody was asked to return to their seats - this time became uninterupted relaxing/streching out-whilst-in-seat time - I liked it when we entered in to turbulent weather from then on in :) Other than that, nothing out of the normal really happened on the fligth. Oh! There was this lady who we had encountered in security at Sydney airport making a comment in reply to one of the security officers which went along the lines of, "Oh, they dont look like boys. They're men!" hahaha, Dickie and I looked at each other with a dumbfounded/confused look on our faces and laughed. Anyway, as we were making our way to our seats (as I mentioned, we sat at the BACK of the plane) we passed most passengers including this lady. To our surprise, this lady made eye contact with both of us, and I am pretty sure she attempted a wink to accompany her extravagent smile (again Dickie and I had perplexed faces but waited till we were seated to exchange). This woman would have probably been in her early to mid 30s :.

Arrival in LAX. LAX proved to be incredibly disappointing! The majority of the airport was under construction...

ok, halfway through this post, but I have to go out now for dinner with Rachel's Grandparents, so ill continue later...