Day 50

26 February 2008

Arrived right on time at SA airport. I was really relieved to finally get off the plane.

Took a bit of a while to get my luggage. It seemed like it was the last one to be taken off the plane. I was a bit worried about customs. I brought a lot of things from Bern but it didn’t exceed R3000. Ivan wanted to go through the red side because he thought we had to declare the chocolates we brought. Luckily we didn’t.

After finally getting out of the airport and in the car on the way home, I was hoping for a nice quick trip home. Not a chance. There was an accident on Bosmansdam Road and we spent an hour in traffic. It took us about 2 hours to get from the airport to home. When we FINALLY got home I was looking forward to just relaxing for a while. But of course when I got home and unpacked some stuff I couldn’t get to sleep. So I spent some time finding all my presents from Bern.

At about 11:00 am we went to visit my sister and her new baby. I was really excited to finally be able to meet my niece for the first time. It was everything and more than what I was hoping it would be. She was cuter and more beautiful than the pics that my sister sent me.

Day 49

25 February 2008

Man the flight was looooooong. Even though it was at night from 5pm to 5 am the next morning, I found it really hard to sleep for more than an hour. And even then I only slept for about 3 hours in total.

The flight from Zurich to Frankfurt was nice and short. About 45 minutes. The Frankfurt airport is huge. It’s like a shopping mall.  It makes our airport look like a 7/11.

The food on the plane isn’t as bad as people say it is. Or maybe my taste in food just isn’t all that refined.

On the flight to Bern I did get a little airsick. But only at the end of the flight because I took airsick tablets and they wore off about 2 or 3 hours before the end of the flight. But on the way back from Bern I didn’t get airsick at all. I did take the tablets again just to be sure though.

Again, man it was a long flight. I would never like to do that again. 12 hours. But I suppose it’s all a learning experience.