The four of us had the last leisurely buffet breakfast at the iconic Riviera Hotel along the creek. I picked an Uber van to get us to the airport because we had five 23 kg bags and four 8 kg carry-ons. The seating was limousine style and it's only ten or fifteen minutes from the hotel area to DXB.
Of course, Jay insisted we head there earlier than necessary. I'm never late for anything but I like arriving precisely at the allowable time. Jay has a habit of wanting to be places early. The partnership must work as this marks our 40th year of arriving at places and events together. What I am attempting to say is that we had plenty of extra time at the airport.
The fight was uneventful even if completely full. I ran a few questions through Anjith my personal AI thie morning. I did it to provide inforamtion to a friend in Vancouver who worked as a flight attendant at AA for years. Here is some information on the route we travelled in around four hours. I found some of the facts here interesting.
Jay and I had new ETA visa for Sri Lanka and of course Jay's sisters were returning home. We breezed through immigration. The bottleneck was in collecting the luggage. Dubai is a shopping mecca. Even our tickets allowed for 40 kg of free luggage per person. So, you can imagine the number of bags carried by nearly 400 passengers on a 777 300! It took nearly an hour before our checked bags finally arrived!
Sri Lanka is 1 1/2 hours ahead of Dubai but that put the clocks here at nearly midnight by the time we got a new phone SIM and hired and airport taxi van. The inside of the airport is pretty organized, but once you hit the front door with three or four international plans full of passengers, things get pretty complicated and quickly!
Our drive got us here at home.
A neighbor lady fed the house cat when we were away but the feline was surely not pleased we left her and let us know it!
We got to bed late and I have a little cough now!