After taking an hour long subway ride that includes taking three trains to avoid having to carry my bags up several flights of steps, I missed my airport train by about two seconds. Of course I was excited to see my flight was delayed. Then an airport employee came over to ask me if I was okay and then I realized I looked like a crack head. My first flight was seventeen hours. I always read about how Cathay Pacific is a great airline so I was excited to be flying them. They do not have individual air vents at your seats, or at least they did not on this flight.
I did not like that. I am not sure if it was because it was an overnight flight or if that is normal. Yes, you can hit the call button and someone will come, but I felt weird after eight hours of nothing, asking for a snack.
It was weird. My row only had two seats. I could not stop laughing. I understand the reasoning for the jogging in place on a plane. I need to start bringing a phone charger with me. Oh and a toothbrush. I would have loved to have brushed my teeth at the airport. Or killed time on my phone. But the battery was dead, so I could not take a picture of the guy who was using plastic bags as socks, underneath his sneakers.
It is storming outside again today. I am sorry Tian Tan Buddha, I am trying here. Killed the 4. My Fitbit told me I walked seven miles in the airport! Then it was time to fly to Kunming. Although this flight is only two hours, I just about lost my mind on it. I am staying at a hotel that is meant for people with a long overnight layover between flights. I had the idea that I could make my way back to the airport to catch the subway to get to the East Bus Station to go to the Stone Forest tomorrow.
I ask a woman at the information desk to call my hotel for me to let them know I am here. She does and I ask where the ATM is. She points me and it will not give me money. It keeps asking me to enter the correct pin. Um, I am? I give up because it clearly hates me. I try another card, nothing. I try an actual credit card, nothing.
