Reunited!

Lydd and Hanie made it in after almost 2 days hovering in the air!! It's now almost 10 pm and we need to go to bed, and shall recount today in writing as we ride the train to Paris in the morning.

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Well

As Lydia said in the previous post, we are in Doha right now waiting for our connecting flight. And iPod doesn't work here (it it did for a while and died out soon after) so I am bogarting Lydia's Mac for the moment. This has been a sleepless night because I couldn't sleep the night prior to the trip (check out my oogly sleepless mug in the previous pic!), and enthralled by the pretty sweet offerings of in-flight movies in the plane, I didn't sleep all that much either. Tried sleeping here at the airport seats, and woke up with drool plastering the side of my face to the jacket. Oh what a sight that must've been. Good thing I cleaned myself up as well as I could before Lydia finds out and decided to take a picture.

I thought at least a few hours must've passed to justify the massive droolage while sleeping but a look at the clock confirmed that it had been less than an hour! Wtf! What am I supposed to do now, haha! Doha airport is pretty much sterile in the sense that it's all function and not much else in terms of entertainment (unless one considers rolling down the seemingly endless floor an entertainment) so there's not much to do but wait.. I guess.

Oh and I take to take my boots off during security check. 3 times and counting. Lydia wore boots too but her Uggs doesn't seem as threatening so she got by scott-free. Unfair! I'm gonna steal her dessert during the 2nd half of this journey to justify this statement and make myself feel better :P

We're Halfway There!

Hanie and I are currently in Doha as that is our transit point. Flying on Qatar Airways was rather pleasant.

Hanie in the plane before our take-off.

Thank God no one else was seated next to us coz I need to go to the toilet a lot (having small bladder sucks! hahaha!). The food served on the flight was alright. Well, you can't exactly expect fine dining on commercial flights anyway :P

Glass noodle salad with sweet citrus vinaigrette, pan-fried butter fish with creamy dill sauce, potato wedges, carrots and broccoli and pistachio mousse cake.

What's worst than not being able to sleep? Well, I think having your sleep interrupted sucks big time. Now, I feel stoned and not in a good way :( It's 3am at the moment in Doha. Our flight out to Frankfurt is at 7.40am.... so that gives us another 4 hrs of... NOTHING. Hahaha!

Now I'm kinda regretting not taking some kind of alcoholic drink in the plane though. Perhaps that would've help me sleep better *sigh*

There isn't much to do in Doha Airport. Both Hanie and I agree that this place looks more like a hospital than an airport because of the white walls and white fluorescent lighting ;)

Anyways, we're HALFWAY to Europe! Yay! And soon the group will be complete once we meet up with Nora in Frankfurt :)

SnOooooOOoow

This is the current state of Europe right now. Ok at least in the northern and eastern regions. This was taken at a rest stop somewhere in Sweden on my way back to Germany.

So it looks like Hanie and Lydia will get to see snow after all! I imagine they are in transit in Doha right now with 7 hours to kill before their connecting flight to Frankfurt. It's 9pm in Dortmund, where I am, and I just got back after a 20 hour bus ride from Stockholm. currently doing my last load of laundry and will start reorganizing my suitcase, a transition from work-mode to fun-mode ;)

I'll have to catch the 10am ICE train to the airport in the morning to meet my travel mates when our journey will truly start!!! More stories to come... ...
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My BF is so Cool!

Ok, this may not quite fit into the travel blog per se, but it does make my trip to Europe a little bit more comfortable.

My mom just flew in from Kuching to see me off before my trip (I know, I know, my mom still thinks I'm 10 and having the size of a 10 yr old certainly doesn't help her think of me as an adult :P). Anyway, she brought a gift from my bf, which was meant to be our 4-year anniversary/Valentine's gift from him.

I'd half expected chocolates, or a soft toy or some cheesy cliche gift from him (coz he does get a kick out of making me cringe). But turns out the gift will be pretty handy for my trip.

It's a contact lens cleaner! Wooots!!!

Ok, so maybe it isn't much for the rest of you folks. But for someone like me who's obsessive compulsive, this is HUGE.  

It comes with a lens holder too, so I won't need to use my fingers when I put on my contact lenses. And going on trips like this, God knows what kind of stuff I'd be touching! Ngahahahaha!

p/s: I wonder if I'll be getting any sleep tonight. I'm just too excited, I can feel the adrenaline pumping through my veins... geez, I wish I could channel all that excitement into my packing. I hate, hate, HATE packing! >.<

I REALLY should be doing work but I'm having..

...Pre-trip jitters: I am so nervous and excited now that I can poop butterflies. Seriously. Don't think I can get any sleep tonight...

2 days+ to go!!

I have two more shows to do in Sweden and Norway and then I'll be heading back to Germany, where I will meet up with Hanie and Lydd!!

Finally.

It is almost surreal that this is finally happening. It feels like it was only yesterday when we were talking about making this EU trip a reality and here we are just 3 days shy from rendezvousing at Frankfurt Airport!!! Two months ago we were at one point so sure that this trip in February will not happen because, among many things, flights were too expensive, and it was all just too short notice to collect sufficient funds for our 'close-to-a-dream' travel.

Lo and behold we managed to conquer the minor and major details and are now pretty much prepared and all over ecstatic about this trip! All goes to say that if you think you can, you ultimately... CAN!! ;-)

Have a safe flight over and I'll see you girls so very sooooon!!!!!