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Downunder and safe
I'm back home after over two weeks away. In familiar surroundings it all seems rather unreal now and I'm feeling a bit sad because it's so far to go I don't know when I'll ever get back again.
I'm knackered after a 12-hour flight followed by a 10-hour one and I'm besieged by cats desperate to make up for 19 days in the cattery so I'll write up what I did during the rest of my trip tomorrow.
In the meantime, some thoughts on airline cutlery.
We flew back with Malaysian Airlines via Kuala Lumpur where we had a three hour stopover, long enough for me to buy two very lifelike segmented wooden snakes which wriggle realistically enough to unnerve Greg who hates them. I love snakes myself and would have had pet ones as a kid if it was allowed here. Must see how the cats react to them.
Anyway. Airline cutlery. Although between London and KL they only trust you with plastic stuff, between KL and Auckland they gave us plastic knives but metal spoons and forks, presumably under the assumption that knives are weapons and the others aren't. I considered this to the intermittent sound of knives snapping and small sharp plastic fragments flying as beef-eating passengers attempted to cut their steaks. The airlines obviously don't know about the eye-gouging capabilities of a spoon as wielded by Avon in B7 fanfic, nor have they met anyone like my friend Carla, the only one in my uni hostel not from out of town--her parents told her to leave home after she stabbed her sister in the arm at the dinner table with a fork. Hey, no wonder sporks have a bad rep.
Oddly enough, we actually got real metal knives to eat our breakfast noodles with before landing. I am somewhat puzzled.
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Gina
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Glad you're home safely. Hug.
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I hope my pics come out. There are some fun ones I want to post, and a couple Vila will use in the RPG.
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You're not allowed to keep snakes as pets in NZ? Weird. (The airline cutlery stuff is also weird, but I expect weirdness from airlines.)
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NZ is like Ireland--there are no snakes here (except for zoos) and they want to keep it that way. I have petted snakes though. On previous holidays I've had a 9-foot python wrapped round me in Thailand to the horror of watching tourists from India, and in Malaysia several hundred crawl all over me at the Snake Temple in Penang. They're not at all slimy; I like the feel of them but Greg gets the shivers just thinking about it. Actually I'm hoping we've got enough frequent flyer miles with Malaysian Airlines to get a free trip there for another holiday next year.
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And, ah, OK, now the snake thing makes sense. Yeah, I don't know where snakes got the reputation for being slimy. I like 'em just fine myself, although I don't think I could ever keep one as a pet, as you have to feed them live critters, and I'm way too tender-hearted for that.
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