If you're ever traveling to Australia from London and I do recommend it, make sure you have a decent stop before doing the second leg of your journey. The eight hour trip from Hong Kong to Melbourne just seemed to go on forever yet with a fairly predictable ending, making it similar in many respects to Avatar.
I managed to get some sleep during the first journey before Dan and I played some Chinese poker (shown right along with some masterful Carter doodling) where I finished up 20 points (steady now, it was only $1 a point). Then a quick changearound in Hong Kong where we forced to disembark and then get back on the same plane. The highlight of this though was us waiting in economy before we saw a nun walk straight through into the plane into first class! So, now you know what the Church spends it's money on, it's for nuns to go partying and drinking with Megadeath and the like on long-haul flights.
Anyway, it's probably a not bad advert for the church:
"Join the Nunnery and you'll be in Frequent Flyer Mile Heaven!"
The second flight saw me run terrible in Chinese Poker to Dan, who seemed quite happy to hit quads every hand and still have room to fit in full houses in the middle. One of the variants we played was that we had to swap a card before making our hands, in one hand I was delighted when Dan dumped me with a deuce to give me quads for the card I had given him. Slightly less good was the fact I'd given him the case nine to make bigger quads.
We also decided to play a game of blind Omaha, best of five to see who got the en-suite master bedroom, which became mine after a brief 3-1 victory bwahahah.
After over a days travel though we had finally arrived in Australia.
As Martin Lawrence would say, "This shit just got real..."
Song of the day: XTC - Senses Working Overtime
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