Flying Nuns and the Brown Borg
Well I got to the airport with 3 minutes before the gate opened so quite good timing. I eventually found out where I was supposed to go and made my way over there. After sorting all the tickets and passport bit out came the moment of truth.. What should I keep? What do I throw out? I was panicking slightly trying to decide what to do if bag was overweight. I put the rucksack on the scales and closed my eyes ...and then opened one... and then had a brucie moment of "Didn't she do well".. Rucksack was 19.5kg thats a whole 0.5kg UNDER I felt all pleased with myself although I do think their scales are faulty but still in my favour!!
So I then headed to the biggest queue at security and for once didn't set that off either so I took myself off to the bar for beer and food.Myself and flying generally don't get on I was never meant to fly of that I'm convinced. If you can imagine downing a bottle of Vodka,standing up too fast and add a Captain Jack Sparrow swagger to it you get the general idea of me after flying. After going to the Doctors and asking his advice I was told he hadn't heard of any other people having that sort of problem and it was obviously unique to me ( I get told this a lot in my life). His advice have a drink well if your doctor tells you to have a drink it's under Doctors orders as far as I am concerned!!. Over the last 12 months of various ABWAK meetings in Edinburgh I've being trying a variety of different things from acu pressure bands to herbal tablets and generally the last combination worked well. Which was going to added to by a few alcoholic drinks. I quite like flying and dont get worked up about it but I know if we go up down left right etc etc. After taking the new improved answer to flying I went and found the gate and boarded the flight.I ended up next to a swiss lady who was going home to Rio to see family before xmas back home in Switzerland. She was very nice and helped order my coffee and such all in portugese.
The lads infront of us after we had taken off seemed to think that they were Joey and Chandler from friends in their chairs and needless to say swiss lady and I weren't left with much room. After flicking through all the films I decided upon Pirates 2 again ( 6 times now!!) but with the novelty factor of you could switch languages! At certain key points within the film I managed to change language and have a giggle ( El Capitanio Jack Sparrow for example!!) it amused me.
I'm not entirely sure at what time I woke up but the sky was fab the sun was just coming up and showing red but the stars still so clear. When we started to descend into Sao Paulo i can understand where all their forest has gone its just block after block after block of concrete. It makes London look like a country town.
At this point I need to back track a little bit because when we boarding there was also a nun which I took to be a good sign nothing bad can happen with a nun on board surely?
But I had to smile because this nun was in Brown Borg uniform. For those who don't know about the aviarys in joke about Brow Borg it started as everyone was changing uniforms and maintance had changed to brown and grounds had and I can't remeber who said it but we used a quote from Star Trek Next Gen saying "resistance is futile you will be assimulated"... into the Brown borg uniform and then the aviary got assimulated too. But the nun had been taken in aswell she had a dark brown wimpole and cream hat thing and instead of a black swan had a gold dove!!
Anyway as the flight landed she started clapping and whooping and made everyone else too most bizarre but if thats what it takes for bad things not to happen I'm all for it!!