My Trip Back To America May 2011...

I started by changing money into Durhim (spell) for my wait in Dubai and some US Dollars....

Durhims...

US Dollars...

Start Of My Journey...

We got to the airport about half an hour earlier than we thought, so we waited a bit until I could check in. When I went to check in, I had some woman that very apparently didn’t know what she was doing. First she didn’t know where Detroit, Michigan was when I told her that’s where I was flying too. Then she kept asking me on separate occasions for a telephone number, then address, then city, then state to be written down on a piece of paper. She “messed” around on the computer for a while and again asked me where I was flying too. So I told her again. Then she told me I don’t have a passport. I was like WHAT!? are you serious!! Who the heck would fly to America if they didn’t have a passport?? Anyways I then showed her my visa and then she was like oh ok and carried on. It took forever to get checked in!

It was then time for me to leave… It was very emotional for me to say goodbye again after so long! I had dosed up on Rescue though (lol), so I think I could have been worse than I was. The new airport in Durban is massively huge, it was such a along walk to my gate, I thought the walk would never end! The boarding was delayed for some reason, so instead of flying at 18:35pm we only left after 19:00pm. I was sitting in the middle of the plane on the isle seat. Two guys were sitting in the middle, and before we flew, one of the air hostesses came to tell them that there were two seats available next to their family members, and that they could go and sit with them. I kept saying to myself “please let them go, please let them go” and they did! I then had four seats all to myself! Woohoo! But I didn’t get to sleep much anyway – it is always so uncomfortable to sleep in planes. The food was REALLY good (I flew with Emirates). We all go given our own MENU’s, lol… I was very impressed with the food, the only thing, was that we were served dinner at about 8:30pm and then got given a continental breakfast at 3:30am, we only finished dinner at like 9:30pm!

Snack Just After Departing Durban...

The Items We Got Onboard...

The TV Screen, Controls and Phone :D...

Our Dinner We Got. I Chose The Beef...

Then The Continental Breakfast We Got Served...

We got to Dubai at about 5:00pm (their time), the airport is huge and really sparkly and pretty. I took a few pictures here and there. The duty free stores are really awesome, there were perfumes in the one that I wanted to get – they were pretty cheap but I didn’t want to have to cart it with me, so decided not to get one (BIG accomplishment! Lol).

Dubai International Airport...

This is a HUGE "waterfall" when you go to the lifts to go into the next lot of security...

The HUGE Lift!! It's Like Walking Into A Huge Moving Room, LOL...

Yes I Know, Pretty Random, But I Couldn't Help But Laugh And Take A Pic...

More Of The Airport While I Waited For My Next Flight...

Mountain Dew...

LOL I Took A Pic Of The Time While I Was Waiting...

While I waited for my next flight I was really dreading it! A 13hr 40min flight was going to kill me for sure…

We eventually could go through to the wait at the gate. We had to go downstairs to the lowest level of the airport, and then the entrance to the plane was an incline, haha...

Tried To Get A Good Pic Of The Plane For Scott, But They Wouldn't Allow Me Too...

This time I was on the side of the plane with 3 seats instead of in the middle with four seats. THIS plane was a “double storey” plane, I was like “WHOAH!!”… I tried to take a pic for Scott but they wouldn’t allow me for some reason so I got a weird pic of the windows – at least it shows the “double storey” :) The trip was painfully long, like REALLY… it felt like it would never end! The lady that was sitting in the window seat was flying from Nigeria to visit New York – kinda weird (won’t put why I think it’s weird on here but ya, it seemed weird)… She didn’t close the window blind once the entire way, was SO frustrating – although we did get eye cover up things, it still didn’t help much… Not that I could sleep anyways… Finally we arrived in New York at 14:30pm. 

By this time I was completely exhausted (at the point where I wanted to cry!), but I still had a ways to go with P.O.E ect.

Otherwise the longest part of my trip had ended and I was happy to be back on USA soil!!