Not So Bad

I assumed I would have a bit of a rant about how appalling my flights were, but as it turns out, compared to everyone else's, they were a breeze (excessive turbulence and horrible, horrible food aside). Reto (who flew at the same time but with different airlines and who arrived in Sydney a few hours after me) was put in a seat with a non-functioning entertainment system thing (ie. a TV screen. On a 10 hour flight!) and was later moved from that seat to an even crappier one (with no entertainment system at all) when someone thoughtlessly had some sort of non-heart attack and needed to use all the floor space near Reto to lie down. My sister, who has been skiing in America for the last 2 weeks, got back to Sydney today and her flight's departure was mysteriously delayed for 2 hours and then at the very end of the flight the woman sitting next to her had a stroke or something and (it seems likely) died. Apparently the paramedic people came onto the plane (it had already landed in Sydney) and they CPRed the woman and they defibrillated her and nothing seemed to help. My sister seems sort of traumatised.

In other news, it's odd to be back. Yesterday when I was all sleep addled and cranky Reto and I went on a bit of a shopping adventure to stop us from falling asleep. I kept being surprised when shop assistants spoke to me in english, and I was also briefly confused about whether I was driving on the right (correct) side of the road or not (admittedly only when I was in a car park and the road was extremely wide and one way, so we could have driven on either side anyway). I think I'm better today (after a good 12 hours of sleep) but I still don't trust me 100% behind the wheel. It's also been raining a lot here lately so everything is kind of green and unrecognisable. Oh, and I might have found a completely excellent dress that I want to wear at my wedding. I have to go to another shop today and see if they have it in my size. If it's a goer though it will save me weeks of running around and panicking. Hurrah!