We arrived in Dubai just after midnight and had about 8 hours to wait till our flight departed for Melbourne. Fortunately we had booked this flight as a Qantas flight which was codeshare with Emirates, which meant that my Qantas Club membership kicked into benefit overdrive and we were able to spend the time quite comfortablly in the huge, spacious Dubai Emirates lounge.

After checking out the space options and finding that pretty much all of the flat beds were taken, I set mysel up in a quiet corner and variously dozed, read, listened to music, emailed, showered, ate and drank to fill in the time. 

Late in the piece when I thought there were still quite a few hours to go, I apparently dozed off quite soundly for a few hours and woke up suddenly and pleasingly post dawn! From there the last hour slipped by and it was soon time to head off. 

Our flight loaded and and departed on time. JJ and I were on opposite sides of the aisle and each had a spare seat next to us so I popped my carry on next to me and put my feet up, popped a helpful pill and apart from watching several 2nd rate movies, slept most of the flight before we landed in Melbourne.