Our flight over. Not too much to say. Nice big plane, great flight stewards (especially Vito, who has kids of his own and therefore an extra large soft spot for Finn, and Tony who was also great) Tony brought out kid fun bags unasked - nice tote bag with age appropriate activities for each of the kids. British Airlines has the greatest vegetarian dinner ever. Some kind of vaguely North African meal - chick pea curry stuff, couscous, eggplant stew. Great, absolutely great. Stewards coming through the cabin every 20 minutes with water and juice trays. Very attentive. Later they brought out a little Britax folding car seat, or well airplane seat, for Finn. He overflowed. Really. They said it was made for kids up to 30 pounds, which he is, and he's not a gangly guy by any means, but he overflowed. Arms and legs spilling out, but hey, he slept for a couple of hours which was great. Emma slept for a little bit, Holly pretended to sleep, and I watched the Northern Lights out the window. If you haven't flown an international flight you probably haven't seen the amazingly cool lcd units that are either in the back of the headrest in front of you or on a fold away pole if you have a bulkhead seat. They show the usual movies, and this is the coolest for geography geeks everywhere, ACTUAL GEOGRAPHY INFORMATION. I didn't bring my GPS unit on the plane because I didn't want to be wrestled to the ground by Tom Ridge's Sky Marshalls (Its a GPS unit not a bomb, I'm a geographer not a terrorist.....) The map channel scrolled through a couple of screens that showed a map of the whole route, a more detailed map, a local map showing the towns in the immediate vicinity of the plane, a flight info screen showing altitude, airspeed, tail wind speed, outside temperature, and all the units cycled through metric and US units. Very very cool. I caught a few minutes sleep.


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