Sunday, July 06, 2003  

Where: Qantas Lounge, Cairns International Airport
When: 9:19am local time

I've arrived at Cairns en route to Brisbane, and seeing as I managed to wrangle a way into the lounge (unlike my sister, who is waiting outside) I figured I should quickly post from here. Unfortunately, thanks to the brilliance of the aging Compaq sitting next to me, the lovely post I had all typed out simply vanished. I love Cairns already!

Not that there's much to love. The airport has all of five gates and two planes... though it happens to have a sushi bar, too. Strange, but hey.

The flight was incredibly annoying. At six and a half hours, it's too long to while away watching TV and reading, and too short to sleep through. Not that I could sleep though, since the Fasten Seatbelt sign came on just after dinner and didn't go off until an hour before landing thanks to rather severe turbulence. Now, I know a few people who LIKE turbulence. They think it's fun. I don't. I hate it. It scares me. And to make matters worse, I had to go to the toilet really badly (naturally, the episode of Friends I was watching featured a similar dilemma of a person with bladder problems).

Either way, I'm almost there. No idea what state I'll be in when I arrive but I gather that everyone else probably won't be in tip-top shape either, so it shouldn't be too bad.

Posted at 9:31 AM

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