The last day was a long one. Remember how I talked about how much extra space was on the Cathay Pacific flight on the way over…3 seats for everyone? Well they fixed that problem on the way back. Both the flight to Hong Kong and then to Toronto were packed. No wiggle room, that's manageable for a 3 hour flight to Florida but it's a little uncomfortable on a 15 hour flight to Toronto. It was interesting to me to see on our tickets that we were leaving at 4:05pm and arriving after a 15 hour flight, 3 hours later in Toronto….crossing the international dateline does that I guess. I counted down the time in about 2 hour chunks because that's how long it took to watch a movie. Which I think I watched 4 or maybe 5, plus some Monty Python flying circus episodes, a dirty job episode and maybe something else….can't remember now. Anyway we made it right on time…maybe a little early. There were times as we flew up across Japan, to the Aleutians, to Alaska and across northern Canada that we were going over 1000km's an hour. I didn't think they went that fast in a commercial aircraft.
We arrived back in Canada to a sign that told us that our luggage was still in Hong Kong….. So needless to say we made it thru the airport pretty quickly and headed home.
I don't sleep very well in moving objects so I didn't get much sleep on the flights so my transition to Eastern time was pretty smooth. I went to bed at 11pm in my bed and woke up at 8 and felt great. I didn't really experience any jet lag coming back which was nice.
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