In which the trip is taken to get there

Sit down child and I will tell you the grand tale of how I lost a day of my life.

So, I wake up on tuesday morning at five. It was one of those rude awakenings you get when you turn your alarm off while still dreaming and only come to when its off, feels like you've stopped the world or something and then reality smashes you in the face. Anyway, anyway. So I had a lovely breakfast of sausage, bacon and egg to get our morning started and we faff around putting the last things together like what we're taking in the car and if there is anything I've forgotten, like have I cleaned my teeth? Then we finally set out and its mildly cold in the car so I use a blanket and try to get some sleep. I managed to nod off and pass a lot of the time, like an hour and a half. Then we hit some traffic and there were some delays on the junctions approaching the airport. We got off the motorway and got to Heathrow where I believed I would be traveling on Boeing with two engines. I got to the check in desk for Qunatas and was wondering if this was the right desk because I had got very muddled. Then I went up some stairs and headed straight for the security and passed that, no problem. I managed to find a water bottle for free because the telegraph was doing a deal where if you spend £1.20 on their paper then they will give you a £1.75 drink for free. So I was happy and then I went and got some noms from Eat. It was nice although there was something like water chesnuts in it that really stood out when it was being eaten yet they were not mentioned on the menu name of it.

Then I headed to my gate. I found then that it wasn't a two engined plane but the Airbus A380 which is the one that I really wanted to fly on :3 So I boarded that after a while and realised that the plane is amazing! The boarding is done by row so you don't have to queue, you just sit there and wait and then go in quite leisurely and find your seat. Luckily I found my seat was in the aisle so I wouldn't have to worry about asking people to move in order for me to use the toilet. Then, as the plane is filling up, I realise that its not full at all. There are loads of seats and most importantly there was a seat free next to me so I was able to put some things there. The entertainment screens were awesome, there were loads of films and you could watch any film at any time you liked for the whole journey. There were games but they weren't very good... but there were games!

I watched a bunch of films. I watched Captain America, Up, Transformers 3, Senna and maybe something else, I will get back to you :) The food was nom, I had lamb, and we got random bits of snacks every so often like a twix ice cream and cheese and biscuits... the cheese and biscuits were especially nice :P Then it went really dark and you could see this because they left a screen with the tail spy cam on, oh yeah the plane had a tail spy cam, and all you could see was the lights flashing on the outside of the plane. Everyone started to go to sleep and this is where I lost a day because instead of sleeping I just watched films and wrote nanowrimo ¬_¬ Anyway then we were coming into land after such a long time, but it didn't feel like such a long time which was the weirdest thing. I must have hyped up the length of it so much that I had expected it not to end.

I left the plane and headed across to the next gate... seeing none of Singapore because the gates were almost right next to each other. Then I boarded but found there was just a little bit more of security before this plane so I had to surrender my free bottle of water which I had not drank halfway yet., grrr. Then I boarded this plane which was basically like a smaller version of the plane I was just on because it had the same entertainment system but the plane seats were worse and well everything was slightly worse. Oh and I watched the hangover II on the first flight, that was the other film. On this plane I sat alone for a while, and then the girl behind me found herself in the wrong seat and then I found her sitting by me. I started talking to her, I had no company on the plane before, and I found out her name was Bridget... which I think it awesome because I've not met someone named that before. She had a lot to say and we had no problems talking about what each other was doing on that plane to Perth. She told me she was returning home to New Zealand after a successful two years working in London at various jobs... and I found myself feeling I was in the reverse of her shoes, but she did give me inspiration. She is also coming to Perth in two months so I hope to met her again and have another friend here at the end of the earth!

Then I walked out into the sun.... boom! Massive heat attack. Apparently it is hotter today than normal and will be hotter tomorrrow and then more cool so... not sure what to think of that. At the hostel I learned about many things, like how things can be so bad but still quite livable. I also found out that in Australia you don't need to be insured to legally drive a car... all you need is a drivers licence... driving an automatic is hard... I'll leave it at that. We were at the shops and everything in there seems like they're just taking the mic. On my to the gate at Heathrow I saw a tiny box of celebrations chocolates cost £12 and I thought that was bad, but here there are loads more things like that, and thats just how it is!! I know each dollar isn't a pound but some things just don't add up to be that expensive. I will give more details later. Right thats all I can think of writing for now, there is a suspicious lack of internet here, amongst other things ¬_¬ but I will either go to the library (I don't know where it is) or an internet cafe (I don't know where one is) but the important thing is that there is a free bus service to city centre :P