The Flight

The flight was a very long 8 hours, 10 minutes and 37 seconds. The reason I know this is because there were no movies and no music on the flight. It was just us: two nine year old boys and an ever increasingly doubtful mum. What was I thinking?!

At the planning stage of this trip Steve and I decided that the boys were not to have electronics of any means. The only things we would bring with us were Taiga's computer and a camera to record our adventure. Very bravely I had asked Steve to erase all games and movies.

So you can imagine my horror when I realised there were no movies on the flight. The boys didn't see a problem, after all we had Taiga's computer. It should have movies and games. It was then that I broke the news to them. No Nintendos, no games, no movies. But hey, we all have a sick bag we can colour in. So we did.

Cody studied the emergency evacuation plan, to the point that he asked questions because he felt that the plane we were on didn't match the diagram in the seat pocket in front of him. In all my flying I have never seen anyone ask questions during the air hostesses' demonstration. By the look on their faces I don't think they had either.

We were served a meal almost immediately after take off. The boys had little burgers and some goodies. To their disgust and the hostesses' dismay they had been served a Kit Kat.

For those of you who don't know the boys have been boycotting Nestle products since they discovered Nestle had been buying palm oil through illegal deforestation in Indonesia.

We all survived the flight, to arrive to 31 degree temperature in Malaysia. This is the first leg of our journey. I'm not sure of the humidity, but it's high. One son proclaimed that we are doomed! And the other announced that we should never have left Australia!

With those words ringing in my ears we begin our adventure. x Lisa ( Slightly frazzled mum)