Em & Lachlan's Excellent Adventure!

"Flying's alright, innit?"

Hey hey, party people!

Despite the picture I chose of the post apocalyptic vision of London, everything is fine! I’m sure most of you know such a pic just appeals to both Em and I and you should all click through and look at the full size version - it’s awesome.

I figured I might take this chance, while Emma yells at websites on the computer next to me, to expand on our trip so far.

After a lovely, spontaneous fairwell brunch, we headed to the airport, accompanied by me Mum and Dad, who both did extremely well at calming Em down and fetching drinks while we waited in line.

The first problem was that our, otherwise fantastic, travel agent Mark (hi Mark, I’m sending you a link to this blog today!) had seemingly failed to link our tickets and we couldn’t sit together from Sydney to Bangkok. Luckily I managed to convince an old man to swap seats, and I later saw him chatting to the young couple I had been sat next to, so at best I’ve inspired a friendship and at worst a terrifying threesome.

The rest of the trip was filled with being highly impressed with Qantas’ On Demand movies and TV, giggling about the Buddhist monk watching American chick flick He’s Just Not That Into You (although Em pointed out this and Mall Cop seemed to be the only films with subtitles), and being scared for the last few hours before Bangkok as we hit a storm and had some crazy turnbulance.

Bangkok was uneventful as we were only there an hour or so. I tried to get onto the free internet machines but the queue of people lining up, who all seemingly logged into Twitter.

After leaving Bangkok we met a lovely Scottish bloke who was meant to be sitting next to us but wanted an aisle seat. As we waited to see if the stewardess could seat him somewhere else, as Em needs the aisle seat, he regailed us of why he was returning to the UK. Seems he had a could appearance. “I was caught with three thousand cigarettes, a load of tobacco and some tazers - which are firearms in the UK, if ya don’t know.”

Clearly this was a man who had been framed.

At no point did he deny he had had those things though, and soon he was moved to another row. We slept most of the rest of the way to combat jet lag. Overall the trip was pleasant, with the food prepared in Australia being great and the food we picked up in Bangkok being fairly average.

After landing in England we got through customs (there’s a story here but I’m currently drawing it for Maternal Fakocity. Will post a link when it’s done) and, being the highly cultured people that we are, went to Starbucks and jumped on the internet.

After that we jumped on the tube, dumped our bags at the YHA, and walked the streets around Earl’s Court Station killing time til we could check in as it was only about 7 AM.

Emma tried her first entry on her International Tour and Inspection of McDonalds’s Cheese Burgers - she judged the UK one as “the same as ours used to be” for those who care - and I stared into the face of the devil eating these. They are the most disgusting things I’ve tasted in a long time, but at only £1 pound I had to try them.

After checking our bags in we went out, bought a phone card and grabbed some dinner before heading back to our rooms and passing out.

Which brings us up to here, now, sitting in the 50 P internet cafe, wondering why UK keyboards swap the @ and the ” symbols around, and trying to ignore that my computer sounds like a WWII fighter plane.

The long of the short of it is we’re happy, healthy and having fun.

Stay human,

~Lachlan


Edit: and yes, there’s been another delay on the pics. They will be up tonight, I promise!