G2 “Lost”
Unlike Maria’s favorite show “Lost” our plane actually did not split in two in midair and all landed in safety on some unknown island where the first class passengers went crazy and started fighting with the “others” that were seating at the tailend of the plane. What actually happened is something all too common to those who cross the international dateline to travel to this side of the world.
What we actually “LOST” was Wednesday, July 9, 2008. And here’s how it happened. I think.
We left Madison at 1:12 pm to Chicago. Our original itinerary had us going to Madison to Denver and from Denver to Los Angeles the to Hong Kong to Manila. The reason we got the earlier flight was that a storm was coming to the midwest later that afternoon. It actually was raining by the time we left Madison. We got to Chicago and caught a flight to Los Angeles at 3pm. We got to Los Angeles about 5pm PST which equals to 7pm CST. Then we waited and waited for the Cathay Pacific counter to open so that we can checkin and get our boarding pass. The counter opened at 8:10pm, but lucky us we were third in line, so we got checked in relatively fast. But our flight from LA to HK did not leave until 11:50pm PST (1:50 am CST, Wednesday morning). This leg of the transit is 14hrs long. OUCH!!! It was a long flight. I had a hard time on this flight even though I
tried to sleep as much as I could. Maria fared better as she was able to sleep some and watched a few movies. But we both struggled on the last 4 hrs of the flight. I think we were just ready to get off the plane. We just didn’t want it to break in half. We got into HK at 5:30 am THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2008. WHOA, Where did Wednesday go? We left LA at 1:50am CST and it was 3:50pm HK time Wednesday. So, follow me if you’ve made it this far. We really commend you for having read this far. It really means you’re smarter than a third grader because you really want to do this time math thing! We have 14 hr flight time leaving LA at 3:50 pm HK time on Wednesday, April 9. 3:50 plus 14 hrs equates to 5:30am Thursday April 10. So what does this have to do with the price of cheese in Chine? I don’t know, but we “LOST” Wednesday flying over the pacific ocean.
We then, in all of our tiredness caught our next flight of our transit to Manila at 8:30am, we got into Manila at 10am.
We got thru immigration Ok, exchange some dollars for PHP and off to our hotel. The Heritage Hotel.
The toughest part was trying to stay awake for at least the next 8hrs to get into the sleep pattern at this side of the world.
Until Next time, Bahala Na……………………..
Tags: G 2008 PHILIPPINE TRIP
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Glad you arrived safely!
Any good in-flight movies? I think Rommel wanted to stay at Heritage. Is it nice? Send some pictures! Have fun and take care.
Jaime and Maria-
Are you sure you are really in the Philippines?? Maybe your stuck somewhere between LA and HK and are just in a dream – maybe a parallel universe?!? haha
Have fun!