Monday, December 15, 2008
Why I've Not Written Anything On Here For Ages - Part I
I'm fully aware that I've been a very slack blogger recently, but I'm also aware that I've been rather busy...and because I've been sooo busy, I'm going to tell you what i've been up to in stages.
Part I
At the beginning of November, I went to see my brother in Florida. The most direct way to get there was to fly directly from Doha to New York, then down to Tampa. The only problem being that the flight from Doha to JFK is nearly 15 hours long. I nearly lost my mind.
Anyway, that aside, the plan was to meet my friend Caroline in JFK and fly down to Florida together. Apparently it takes a long time to get through customs in New York though, so it was a good job the connecting flight was delayed, else Caroline would have missed it. However, reacting to a JetBlue Airways staff member saying the plane is delayed with, "Ooooo that's good news!" is not advisable, as they don't take it very well.
So off we went on our delayed-plane to Florida and spent some quality time by the pool....erm...I mean catching up with my brother, before heading back to New York to party with a friend of ours who now lives there. Getting back to JFK proved to be rather interesting; this time the aeroplane was on time, but it went through an area of turbulence, which proved to be rather...turbulent. I think it was when the TV screens all went blank and some people started screaming that we started looking rather nervous.
Anyway, we made it back to New York, albeit a few stones lighter, and as they say, "When in Rome..." so for much of the time we shopped. We did manage to find time to do the usual New York-y things however...
We went on the Staten Island ferry to see the Statue of Liberty, who frankly must have been freezing:
That's a grimace from me, not a smile, if you're interested: I'm used to desert weather.
Then I noticed the skyline of La Grande Pomme...
...which looks surprisingly similar to:
Doha! ...except of course for the clouds.
Caroline spent the vast majority of the holiday trying to ensure that Starbucks was as cushioned from the economic slump as possible:
..and was pleased to find that the American's found her much funnier than her fellow countrymen:
Anyway, we continued to be tourists:
Then things started to get a bit like Where's Wally, at which point we had to stop...
...and frankly all the lights of Times Square had started to give me a headache anyway. Yes, it was time to head back to my giant sandpit and get ready for a visitor...
Part I
At the beginning of November, I went to see my brother in Florida. The most direct way to get there was to fly directly from Doha to New York, then down to Tampa. The only problem being that the flight from Doha to JFK is nearly 15 hours long. I nearly lost my mind.
Anyway, that aside, the plan was to meet my friend Caroline in JFK and fly down to Florida together. Apparently it takes a long time to get through customs in New York though, so it was a good job the connecting flight was delayed, else Caroline would have missed it. However, reacting to a JetBlue Airways staff member saying the plane is delayed with, "Ooooo that's good news!" is not advisable, as they don't take it very well.
So off we went on our delayed-plane to Florida and spent some quality time by the pool....erm...I mean catching up with my brother, before heading back to New York to party with a friend of ours who now lives there. Getting back to JFK proved to be rather interesting; this time the aeroplane was on time, but it went through an area of turbulence, which proved to be rather...turbulent. I think it was when the TV screens all went blank and some people started screaming that we started looking rather nervous.
Anyway, we made it back to New York, albeit a few stones lighter, and as they say, "When in Rome..." so for much of the time we shopped. We did manage to find time to do the usual New York-y things however...
We went on the Staten Island ferry to see the Statue of Liberty, who frankly must have been freezing:
That's a grimace from me, not a smile, if you're interested: I'm used to desert weather.
Then I noticed the skyline of La Grande Pomme...
...which looks surprisingly similar to:
Doha! ...except of course for the clouds.
Caroline spent the vast majority of the holiday trying to ensure that Starbucks was as cushioned from the economic slump as possible:
..and was pleased to find that the American's found her much funnier than her fellow countrymen:
Anyway, we continued to be tourists:
Then things started to get a bit like Where's Wally, at which point we had to stop...
...and frankly all the lights of Times Square had started to give me a headache anyway. Yes, it was time to head back to my giant sandpit and get ready for a visitor...
