In Flight Entertainment

While I have yet to plan one single thing for the time we are in Hong Kong, I have planned EXTENSIVELY for the flight over there. Have I mentioned that the flight is a tad….long? We leave today at noon and factoring in the time change, we arrive…in June. [Don’t worry – you get it back on the flight home.]

I have EASILY packed more books, magazines and blog ideas than clothes [skorts don’t take up much space]. If I were to read everything I brought with me, I would earn a Ph.D. before I land. A Ph.D. in worthless, non-fiction trivia, mind you – but a Ph.D. nonetheless. [At least as valuable as Rita’s Ph.D. in cooking magazines.]

I went ahead and penciled in a schedule of activities for the flight, so I knew I would keep busy:

Noon to 1 pm:         Happy hour
1 pm to 2 pm:          Blogging [always better after happy hour]
2 pm to 3 pm:          Daily dose of Winston Churchill biographies
3 pm to touchdown: Ambien/snoring/drooling. My apologies to my neighbor in seat 26B. [OMG!..I’m the reason people don’t like middle seats!]

But I have 8 books on my Kindle, just in case. And a John Grisham paperback should we reach Code Red boredom.

Then there’s the food we packed. Chex mix/bananas/mini snickers/etc./etc.. [Bet the bananas make it all the way to Hong Kong. Maybe even Ireland.] Usually, these provisions would represent a week’s worth of calories. Apparently, however, calories during air travel are like gravity on the space shuttle…only 1/6th count. I mean, when was the last time you let yourself buy a bag of mini-snickers?! [Unless you “put it in escrow” by asking someone else to hide it from you]

With all the food we’ve packed, Rita and I we could start our own airborne canteen. If United’s food cart goes empty, I’m going to pay for this vacation with a granola bar liquidation.