Home again.

You will perhaps be glad to hear the last of this, for the time being at least, that I am now totally ruined for anything other than Business Class!
We didn’t have the bigger flat beds on the home flight, but the seats still lay flat, just narrower. The flight attendants were very attentive and as we had pre booked our main meal, as soon as we were seated on the plane we were asked at what time we wanted to be served our main meal. We both said, soon after the flight has taken off and that’s what happened. So our tray tables were set with white linen cloths and our ‘book the chef’ meals were brought out to us- I had Lobster Thermidor! At one stage I had a bit of a look around us, and we were the only two with our tray tables set, eating! Hilarious...
Everyone else seemed to settle in to go to sleep straight away, but not us! So we had flight attendants falling over us, offering drinks, hot towels, water, juice, more drinks, snacks...... and a lot of the time we said yes to them! I finished my meal with a Bailey’s on ice and J had a Singapore Sling. I think we were the only two asked to complete a questionnaire on our service from Singapore airlines. Don’t know if that’s because we were the only ones with lights on, sitting upright or because we had such a great relationship with all the staff fussing over us! Some times we can be such princesses...
So watched a movie and then had a lay down. Didn’t sleep but that’s okay as soon enough it was time for breakfast, and we wolfed most of that down too. Smooth landing 45 minutes early. As we were amongst first off the plane, we were quick through Immigration, then our bags were first off the carousel, so only Customs to get through. So far it’s taken less than 10 minutes from when we got off the plane. I had checked the box on my Immigrstion form re bringing food back so as we were travelling together J had to come through the ‘something to declare’ line with me, but when I was asked what food I had, my reply of chocolate covered walnuts, vegemite, olive oil and tapenade meant they weren’t interested in me opening my suitcase. The Customs woman did ask me if I had any foi gras with me but I was able to assure her that no duck or goose had given up its liver for me. She then asked us if we had been to any vineyards and our answer was ‘hell yes’ but we hadn’t walked through the vineyards just as J told her, drunk lots of wine. And so we emerged through Customs unscathed. Claire will be picking us up shortly, but time for a real skinny latte, our first in a month, and the chance to finish up this tome.
Au revoir. 👩🏻‍✈️🙋🏼‍♀️👩‍❤️‍👩