Good news is I did manage to get some sleep on our long flight, BUT I didn't realize how much it would mess with my clock... As we were landing in Kuwait I took pictures of the gorgeous sunrise (which, considering they had JUST served us breakfast, and they said it was 6:15 - no AM or PM, and it had been dark in the plane until then, seemed like a reasonable assumption).... just kidding! It was the sunset... sooo now it is sometime between midnight and one am local time, and I am WIDE awake...
I am almost done with the Jack Reacher book from the nice random lady at PHX, I've watched a couple a movies, and now we are just wasting time, I might stop by the local Duty Free (Woohooo) and buy something small, like perfume or something.
It was interesting touching down in Kuwait, it was a strange mix of people who are from the Middle East and American soldiers, because apparently it's a staging area for them going into Iraq... And beyond one or two American guys (defense contractors or troops, I couldn't tell with some of them), I was the tallest person in the holding area of the Kuwait City airport. By A LOT. The women are tiny. About Meredith's size (No offense :) )... We attracted a lot of attention. One little girl was chatting up Dr. Tonya, I think she liked her blond hair.
One of the airport employees (from Sri Lanka, nice guy) loved the shirt dresses Holly and I are wearing. I would take a picture, but I've been flying for too many hours to even pull off "socially acceptable",much less "pretty enough for a picture"
Other than that, we were an hour late leaving Kuwait city, which still wouldn't have hurt us any because we have such a long layover in Bahrain, but they just delayed our flight to Dhaka by an hour as well, apparently there is "weather" in Bangladesh :-/
And heeey lookie what Holly and I found in Bahrain.... EXCITEMENT!! And they took USD, so I didn't have to worry about changing money to get something warm to drink :-D
SB
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