On the way !

After months of its getting closer, finally Friday 1 Octover arrived and we were on the way.

Its funny how different people prepare for travel, James was awake a little after 5am for 13:10 flight, Nicola managed to sleep till 9am !

We travelled to the airport courtesy of Mike Sheehan and Eileen Scott (thanks so much), check in was a breeze at the business counter thanks to the 3 memebers of the party who are Star Alliance Gold (Bev, James and Meren).

After some lets get the holiday started duty free shopping by most of the party (not James) we went to the lounge and found a number of Comm Games bound athletes were there. James said hi to Anna Rankin a Badminton player from down South who knew of the Dawkins.

After a very short time in the lounge it was on to the flight, normal dramas on the flight a lady three seats in front was on oxygen for 3 hours and by the time we got to Singapore she was up and about and looking healthier than most of the rest of us. Its such a small world Andrew Carmody who James has worked with was sitting 3 seats behind us. Lucky Andrew was offwith his wife Janine to Vietnam starting with two days in Singapore and then Hanoi and travelling south to Hoi An.

After a quick tour of Terminal 3 shops for Nicola and a brief look at the Butterfly enclosure (it was now 8pm and dark so most if the butterflys were asleep). we caught the train to terminal 2 and went to the Star Alliance lounge, after a chicken rice meal with chillie source washed down with a beer it was time to update the blog.

The flight to Delhi leaves at 2:30am (7:30 am NZ time) so it will be tough keeping going until then.
My next update should be from Delhi