Unhappy kids on a plane
Especially since Samuel L. Jackson wasn't on board to rescue us all!
I should have expected it really since our whole day had been one fiasco after another. We arrived *slightly* late to the Gold Coast airport which meant a quick goodbye with our parents after checking in our luggage. On our way through we found out that the GST rebate was only available if you’d spent more than $300 in the one store within the last 30 days.
Unfortunately I thought it applied to all of my purchases, so I’d been on a giant shopping spree (assuming that everything had an additional 10% discount).
A little while later....
It was boarding time for our flight to Mumbai, and after buying our 4L of allowed alcohol (alcohol is VERY expensive in India, so we have to stock up!) I realised we didn't have one of our bags. I ran like a crazy person through the duty free shop, absolutely certain Josiah had gotten distracted by something glittery & had left the bag in there.
It wasn't there! I was absolutely hysterical. What had Josiah DONE?! All my makeup was in that bag!! In that moment, it was literally the end of the world.
Turns out I'd left it at the security check point. I was so embarrassed!
As predicted, our flight into Mumbai arrived early so our complimentary pick up was no where in sight. Thankfully he did finally turn up, but by then I was grumpy. And the hotel was disgusting.
I woke up in a good mood today though, and so far things are going great!!
I should have expected it really since our whole day had been one fiasco after another. We arrived *slightly* late to the Gold Coast airport which meant a quick goodbye with our parents after checking in our luggage. On our way through we found out that the GST rebate was only available if you’d spent more than $300 in the one store within the last 30 days.
Unfortunately I thought it applied to all of my purchases, so I’d been on a giant shopping spree (assuming that everything had an additional 10% discount).
The line for the rebate was huge (and our flight was on its final boarding call) but never one to waste an opportunity to get some cash back from the Australian Government, we decided to line up anyway. It was the right choice as we did end up making our flight after all. We were, however, seated on opposite sides of the plane :(
Either AirAsia knows of our reputation for bickering over who gets the window seat, or its their way of 'encouraging' passengers to cough up more money to pre-select seats in future. As it turns out we weren’t the only couple split up. Josiah was sitting next to a woman whose husband was just 2 seats along from me. So we all played musical chairs and thwarted AirAsia’s naughty scheme! Ha ha!
We had 2 flights that day - from GC to KL, then 3 hours later, from KL to Mumbai. A 3 hour gap is long enough in theory, but (of course) our plane was late departing. We tried not to stress about it too much. That is, until we saw the 2 hour long queue backing up from the immigration checkpoints to the tarmac!
Either AirAsia knows of our reputation for bickering over who gets the window seat, or its their way of 'encouraging' passengers to cough up more money to pre-select seats in future. As it turns out we weren’t the only couple split up. Josiah was sitting next to a woman whose husband was just 2 seats along from me. So we all played musical chairs and thwarted AirAsia’s naughty scheme! Ha ha!
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| Yes, I got the window seat |
We had 2 flights that day - from GC to KL, then 3 hours later, from KL to Mumbai. A 3 hour gap is long enough in theory, but (of course) our plane was late departing. We tried not to stress about it too much. That is, until we saw the 2 hour long queue backing up from the immigration checkpoints to the tarmac!
We were ushered into line, and left to crap our pants.
The queue was barely moving (can you believe they still didn't open all the check points!) and time was ticking away.
I decided we had two options:
1) We could politely ask to jump the queue (from the looks on everyone's face, this was not going to happen)
2) I could sweet-talk the security officer
Option 2 worked like a charm. What can I say?
As we were walked to the front of the line, I couldn't help but smile. There was one particular man who had been very aggressive towards Josiah for "pushing in" (it wasn't intentional on our part, and we very quickly moved out of his way). I wanted to give him a royal wave as we were ushered ahead, but Josiah said it would be childish and inappropriate. Whatever.
A little while later....
It was boarding time for our flight to Mumbai, and after buying our 4L of allowed alcohol (alcohol is VERY expensive in India, so we have to stock up!) I realised we didn't have one of our bags. I ran like a crazy person through the duty free shop, absolutely certain Josiah had gotten distracted by something glittery & had left the bag in there.
It wasn't there! I was absolutely hysterical. What had Josiah DONE?! All my makeup was in that bag!! In that moment, it was literally the end of the world.
Turns out I'd left it at the security check point. I was so embarrassed!
As predicted, our flight into Mumbai arrived early so our complimentary pick up was no where in sight. Thankfully he did finally turn up, but by then I was grumpy. And the hotel was disgusting.
I woke up in a good mood today though, and so far things are going great!!
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