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Friday 14 September 2012 – Bounding Home

Day 155 and 3 days to go

So this day would be the shortest on record. An hour and a half into our United Airline flight we were served a meal that Paul and I were both glad for. We had different choices, but both meals were delicious. With the meals complete I was then a little more settled and decided it was time to get some sleep.

I did actually manage to get plenty, waking at 6.30am briefly and then turning around and going back to sleep again for another couple of hours, waking at 9am. I was a little stiff and sore but generally well rested. Meanwhile Paul had managed an hour or two between the movie selections MIB3 and Avengers.  It was now ten hours into the flight.

I returned to my book having only a short amount left to read. It kept me entertained and helped the hours disappear. At 10am I was up going to the loo and stretching out and walking for a bit. It was so good to stand up.

With my book complete, what will I do without the Greys? I listened to the radio and then watched some of the TV shows that were playing. Unfortunately this United 747 flight is old school with no individual TV screens, so it was crane your neck to see the minute screen in the background. They really need to get with the times and upgrade their fleet.

By 11.30am we were served our breakfast thankfully, as we were both starving and devoured the eggs and fruit with gusto.  We returned to the TV as the final miles sailed away beneath us. By now we could see the pink of a new day tinging the sky. From my seat it looked pretty special and I only had a limited view.

With our decent well and truly begun we were held in a holding pattern waiting for our landing number as airlines cannot land before 6am here in Sydney. It was now 1pm Friday afternoon San Francisco time.

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Not quite the route we took but close enough!