It’s about that time! We are heading to Sri Lanka to visit my good friend, Sabrina! (And her family!)

We had learned our lesson with SFO – the last time we flew out of the International terminal we had gotten to the airport 2 hours early and ended up running to our gate. However, so far – we’ve had quite the opposite experience!

I had checked in ahead of time – and so because of that we were taken to a separate line for “Web Checkin.” This is where we met Fathima -who was a complete angel. She was from Kandy – one of the cities that we are visiting on this trip. She squealed with excitement when we told her where we were all visiting.

I had heard how bad Air India was – and we didn’t experience the extreme delays that others spoke about. We took off about 50 minutes late – but I had anticipated a small delay due to fog as we were driving in to the airport. However, Andy’s screen didn’t work – mine did, but my remote didn’t. What do you do on a 15 hour flight with no TV?

Just kidding – thankfully I had been warned (Thanks Neelima!) and had downloaded a few movies and Schitt’s Creek (Thanks Traci!) off of Netflix. I also brought Little Women along – the novel – because of course I need to read it before I watch the movie!

We had warned the girl that was in the aisle in our row that we like to get up and stretch – but she didn’t want to switch with us. (6-7 times later I’m sure she regretted that decision!)

I had also been warned that the service was bad on the flights – I can confirm this. Our flight attendant acted like she didn’t want to be there – however, I saw so many other flight attendants that were attentive. (Don’t rule Air India out!)

Our flight was about 15 hours – and about 10 hours in to the flight they announced that most of their entertainment systems were down – well shoot! I had thought it was just us!

Everything went smoothly – and we are now waiting in New Delhi for the next leg of our flight. We will take off for Colombo a little after 10 PM. (Only about 4 more hours until we board).

Looking forward to spending time with Sabrina – and meeting her family. It’s going to be a great holiday!