So who was going to be my seat buddy on this trip.... well as it turns out it was a double edge sword. I wondered down the isle as I got on pretty late and can't see anyone sitting in the seat next to me (on the 3 in a row setup) that was because it was a little 2yr old Dora quitely sitting there taking up hardly any room of this massive chair playing on her mums ipad. This could be good i think. pretty quite kid, looks well behaved.... Well now i know how a 4.5...

Wowzer... 12.5hrs later why can't Australia float closer to everything else? Imagine what it would do for the economy? I should drop that suggestion into Clive Palmer and see if he can arrange his Titanic 2 to tug us across and up the pacific a bit? So we arrived early which was nice, 6:10am in fact but sadly the custom guys don't start work until 6:30 so we got to sit on the plane for 20 mins getting hot and stuffy. Finally we were let out probably one of the f...