Flight

So flew with old trusty BA who I really like and always have. The world's favourite airline and indeed mine! Just before I got on the plane I saw a Mexican athlete in a wheelchair showing off his gold medal to an appreciative crowd. That almost started me off crying. Then I saw what looked like the entire Brazilian Paralympic team, and that really make me well up! I rushed to get on the plane, just so I was not a blubbering mess within the terminal.



The flight attendant was determind to get everyone tiddly, and was handing out wine, beer and spirits like they were going out of fashion. Very unusual in these austere times. I got 4 small bottles of wine off him and offers of a 5th - definitely my favourite flight attendant EVER :-) 

3 fun movies to stop me getting too emotional on the plane: 21 Jump Street, This Means War and Men in Black 3. All of them made me laugh to a greater or lesser degree and were exactly what I needed! Otherwise a relatively uneventful flight - the man two seats away from me was eating butter with a spoon out of the packet, and the woman next to me threw up over herself on the way into JFK, but otherwise pretty normal! 

Customs was much shorter than I have come to expect from US airports, and the homeland security guy was very jealous of my trip as well :-)

I headed off to a different terminal to try and catch up with Johnny and Marcus so we could all come into town together, but it didn't work out as they were pretty delayed so I got a shuttle in with strangers.

$25 was probably worth it for the skyline alone. I had forgotten what a beautiful cityscape NY is. The Chrysler building was winking at me in the sun. I had also forgotten how busy and noisy NY is, in an amazing vibrant hedonistic kind of way... I am going to have fun this week for sure!