Well, currently waiting for a 4 hour layover in Dubai, Saudi right. Took Emirates airline, was mighty impressed with what they had to offer compared to Delta and Southwest airlines. Inflight movies, 600 channels of new releases, music from all nations (like K-Pop and J-pop), nice food, roomy seats.... watched Cars and Ratatouille while on the plane for the first time, great movies!

Anyway, I'm sitting at a charging station charging this laptop and accessing their free airport-wide WiFi, pretty amazing stuff. I'll go ahead and recount my first day of flying to start my vacation before I forget once we leave here and get to China.

1st day we left, our flight was 1 hour late getting to the airport (we had to take a transfer/connection from Florida to New York to get to Rome), then once we were in the air (and hitting the worst turbulence I've ever been in) there was an incident at JFK International which saw us rerouted to Norfolk to land and refuel, adding another 30 minute delay. Then we got to the airport and landed eventually, but then we sat on the runway waiting to taxi in, the plane at our terminal had an engine malfunction and couldn't leave, adding MORE time onto our arrival. Eventually our pilot managed to find a free terminal that we had to be towed into, which in the end caused us to be late by a total of 2 hours and a half, missing our connection flight which we had to rebook (on our schedule, it was suppose to be a 2 hour layover).

The flight from New York to Rome was the most sickening, at least for me. We hit at least 3 hours of 'major' turbulence and I had to close my eyes, listen to my ipod and try to sleep through it. I really felt like the plane was going to drop out of the sky! The flights from Rome to Dubai was really pleasant, didn't feel the plane move at all and they even had (besides what I mentioned before) camera channels for the front and bottom of the plane for takeoff and flight! Pretty techy!

Sorry if this journal is a bit messy, got to run off now as I need to charge my laptop for my next 12+ hour flight from Dubai to China, roughly. I'll get exact time after I arrive! Take care all!