Today was the day.. up early to get all organised before heading off on our adventure to the big bad land of americans. We hope its all going to be smooth sailing.. but of course that would be too much to ask.. especially considering Emma kept trying to totally injure herself leading up to leaving.. I was awoken nice and early by Emma walking into the barrier we had set up to stop Nemo from being able to go in the sitting room to scratch on the rug in the night.. anyways so yeah I woke up to a little crash and Emma only just managing to stay on her feet.. highly amusing to say the least! Moving along from that tho.. we lay in bed waiting for the time to pass before we actually have to get up.. then we get organised and say our good byes to Nemo.. which was kinda sad in itself and head off to the first stop on the agenda.. buying our train tickets to Copenhagen. Which resulted in drama.. as you see the money Emma had put on there the day before to make sure we had enough to get to and from Copenhagen.. well that money was gone and so Emma had to have a testy convo with the ticket lady who then after a fair bit of fuss (I was waiting outside so I had no idea what was happening but was getting annoyed that Emma was taking so damn long to just buy tickets!) Anyways the lady put enough money on the card so that we had enough for the return trip.. but it still meant that we were 122kr short of what we had put on there the day before so Emma had to call customer service while we waited to board the train. That convo took place and there was nothing that could be done until we got home apparently.. so we put it to the back of our minds and set off on our merry way to the airport.
We arrive on time.. which was nice.. usually trains are late.. so this was good.. we go to check in and this angry looking danish woman stops us from entering the queue and tells us to go and check in using the machines.. that seems to go all smoothly.. but then we are still left with our bags so we head off to the queue again and when we get up there we are told that we shouldn't have done it this way to queue here.. this queue was if you wanted to check in and check your bags in at the same time.. which is what we wanted to do to start with until angry danish woman stopped us.. anyways it got all sorted.. we checked in.. had our boarding passes and off we headed into the secured area of the airport.. which is where the fun happened.. Emma got stopped to be patted down and I was too busy laughing and watching that I didn't see it was my turn and then just when I thought I was going to get patted down also.. the guy just tells me to step to the side.. all the fun stuffs happens to Emma!
What was very funny though was that I had just finished giving my permission.. not that they really need it.. coz if you don't give it then you will miss your flight with all the fun proceedures they go through.. umm anyways I had just given my permission for him to check through our stuff when Emma walks up and just starts grabbing it all.. it made me laugh so very much! But yeah we got through smooth sailing.. probably coz we are so innocent and wouldn't be stupid enough to even try and take anything through.. but yeah we are through and we start to look around and do a spot of shopping.. there was a surprising large amount of stores.. and that is where I came across Starbucks! Totally awesome!! It has been since I lived in Australia that I had a Starbucks coffee.. which as it turned out.. wasn't that nice but hey at least it was more than luke warm.. which is what you get when you order anything at Espresso House in Malmö.
Finally we boarded the plane.. we took off and in the air we were.. it all seemed to go nice and smoothly so maybe our luck had changed? or maybe not.. when the foodage came around.. they went to give Emma a normal meal instead of the vego meal and also tried to say that we hadn't ordered the vego meal.. we had.. and we eventually got it.. and then they came past with drinks.. and the hostess then proceeded to knock over Emma's sad salad right into her lap.. she kept saying "are you sure its ok?" even though Emma had not said that it was ok.. and if the woman had of just taken a little look at Emma's face she would of seen that it was NOT ok. But I guess we should be happy that it was just the salad without any wet dressing on it.. but still.
Oh yes.. and what ever happened to good airplane foodage? Seriously.. that used to be one of my favourite things about flying.. the wonderful little single serve meals.. that usually tasted good.. now however they taste like poo and well.. are not to get excited about.. at all. The food was so bad.. cold chicken.. like icy cold and some curry potato salad.. then the next flight was warm chicken with slightly less warm curry rice. Oh and who can forget the crazy dairy side dish thingo.. make of skim milk and left a puke taste in ones mouth.. it was really very odd.. why it would be served on a plane is beyond me.. I'm shocked it didn't make the whole plane puke! lol
We land in Iceland, which is a pretty sad airport.. but I get a stamp in my passport! YaY! its only taken 2 1/2 years to finally get a stamp that pretty much means I'm not in transit.. you see.. my passport has a stamp of me leaving Melbourne airport but then that is where it stopped, so according to my passport I was still flying about! lol So now.. I have landed in Iceland! Anyways the stop over here is short.. only like an hour or so.. we got and wait at the gate until its time to go through the boarding area where we then get crammed into a smaller room before actually being able to board the plane.. go figure.. it was all very odd. We board. We take off and the longer flight is about to take place.. and our luck has finally turned.. we get 3 seats to ourselves! so we get to have an empty seat inbetween us and kick back and really enjoy the flight.. & as it turns out.. you don't get a free movie on this flight.. you have to pay us$10 to watch an OLD flick.. not even anything new! shocking.. so we didn't bother. Then Emma had some more bad luck with the new set of hostesses.. this time one flicking ice cold water at her.. how nice!
The flight seems to take forever!! but it is finally time to start to land when we get told that we have to circle Boston first and wait for the weather to clear a little.. so we did a little loop de loop before coming in to land.. but it was all ok. *thumbs up*
We arrive on time.. which was nice.. usually trains are late.. so this was good.. we go to check in and this angry looking danish woman stops us from entering the queue and tells us to go and check in using the machines.. that seems to go all smoothly.. but then we are still left with our bags so we head off to the queue again and when we get up there we are told that we shouldn't have done it this way to queue here.. this queue was if you wanted to check in and check your bags in at the same time.. which is what we wanted to do to start with until angry danish woman stopped us.. anyways it got all sorted.. we checked in.. had our boarding passes and off we headed into the secured area of the airport.. which is where the fun happened.. Emma got stopped to be patted down and I was too busy laughing and watching that I didn't see it was my turn and then just when I thought I was going to get patted down also.. the guy just tells me to step to the side.. all the fun stuffs happens to Emma!
What was very funny though was that I had just finished giving my permission.. not that they really need it.. coz if you don't give it then you will miss your flight with all the fun proceedures they go through.. umm anyways I had just given my permission for him to check through our stuff when Emma walks up and just starts grabbing it all.. it made me laugh so very much! But yeah we got through smooth sailing.. probably coz we are so innocent and wouldn't be stupid enough to even try and take anything through.. but yeah we are through and we start to look around and do a spot of shopping.. there was a surprising large amount of stores.. and that is where I came across Starbucks! Totally awesome!! It has been since I lived in Australia that I had a Starbucks coffee.. which as it turned out.. wasn't that nice but hey at least it was more than luke warm.. which is what you get when you order anything at Espresso House in Malmö.
Finally we boarded the plane.. we took off and in the air we were.. it all seemed to go nice and smoothly so maybe our luck had changed? or maybe not.. when the foodage came around.. they went to give Emma a normal meal instead of the vego meal and also tried to say that we hadn't ordered the vego meal.. we had.. and we eventually got it.. and then they came past with drinks.. and the hostess then proceeded to knock over Emma's sad salad right into her lap.. she kept saying "are you sure its ok?" even though Emma had not said that it was ok.. and if the woman had of just taken a little look at Emma's face she would of seen that it was NOT ok. But I guess we should be happy that it was just the salad without any wet dressing on it.. but still.
Oh yes.. and what ever happened to good airplane foodage? Seriously.. that used to be one of my favourite things about flying.. the wonderful little single serve meals.. that usually tasted good.. now however they taste like poo and well.. are not to get excited about.. at all. The food was so bad.. cold chicken.. like icy cold and some curry potato salad.. then the next flight was warm chicken with slightly less warm curry rice. Oh and who can forget the crazy dairy side dish thingo.. make of skim milk and left a puke taste in ones mouth.. it was really very odd.. why it would be served on a plane is beyond me.. I'm shocked it didn't make the whole plane puke! lol
We land in Iceland, which is a pretty sad airport.. but I get a stamp in my passport! YaY! its only taken 2 1/2 years to finally get a stamp that pretty much means I'm not in transit.. you see.. my passport has a stamp of me leaving Melbourne airport but then that is where it stopped, so according to my passport I was still flying about! lol So now.. I have landed in Iceland! Anyways the stop over here is short.. only like an hour or so.. we got and wait at the gate until its time to go through the boarding area where we then get crammed into a smaller room before actually being able to board the plane.. go figure.. it was all very odd. We board. We take off and the longer flight is about to take place.. and our luck has finally turned.. we get 3 seats to ourselves! so we get to have an empty seat inbetween us and kick back and really enjoy the flight.. & as it turns out.. you don't get a free movie on this flight.. you have to pay us$10 to watch an OLD flick.. not even anything new! shocking.. so we didn't bother. Then Emma had some more bad luck with the new set of hostesses.. this time one flicking ice cold water at her.. how nice!
The flight seems to take forever!! but it is finally time to start to land when we get told that we have to circle Boston first and wait for the weather to clear a little.. so we did a little loop de loop before coming in to land.. but it was all ok. *thumbs up*
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