An Endless Flight & An Endless Night
May. 14th, 2025 11:41 amAlright, well I just got back from visiting this insane mall, but more about that later. For now, let me talk about the flying experience!
We left California at around midnight and got served dinner at 1-ish AM? It was actually pretty good--I had curry as my main dish with some assorted sides, and it was surprisingly delicious! Just like the stroopwafel I had as my snack on the Missouri to California plane ride. But then at I-don't-want-to-know-when AM, they gave us these weird chicken salad sandwiches--not the best snack I ever had. It was good at first but the more I had, the more it grated on my taste buds. And the protein bars were horrible! Breakfast was oatmeal that was good on the top and overly soggy on the bottom, Greek yogourt and fruit--decent, but not enough to keep me full. Especially after spending an hour or two in immigration, etc. Actually, they didn't examine our baggage in immigration--which makes sense, since we had been in security since Missouri, but still.
And let me say: I am never doing a long-haul red-eye again. We were on that flight for well over twelve hours, and I had the kind of sleep where you don't know if you actually were sleeping or not half the time, even though I was "sleeping" for most of the flight. I also re-watched Pride and Prejudice (the 2005 movie--quite good, but not such a masterpiece as the BBC miniseries). And when we landed in Korea, it was 5:something AM, but the sun was already coming up. But since the flight was so long, we basically had an eighteen-hour (or so) night last night, since the sun went down before we left California. And I kept waking up in the night, thinking I must have been sleeping for three or four hours, and we only had a couple hours left, right? But no, it was all in one-hour spurts. Ridiculous! It felt utterly interminable--like some sort of purgatory. Thank God I'm out now!
This place is insanely urban, even though it's only a suburb/satellite city of Seoul--the buildings here are taller than any I've ever seen before! And people are always rushing and always busy. It's ab-so-lute-ly insane. And I felt super rushed, and honestly even guilty when I had trouble understanding the airport shuttle bus driver once we landed when he was helping us with luggage, etc.--I couldn't really understand his accent sometimes, and some of his sentences just kind of didn't make sense?--probably because I was so tired. (He also started off speaking to me--the white girl, I'd think pretty obviously a foreigner--in Korean. I appreciate his optimism! Because I always get a little annoyed when I go to a Chinese restaurant and they give me normal silverware because they think I can't use chopsticks. But this man, I guess, had the right spirit at the wrong time.)
But yeah. We're about to go have kimbap for lunch now--I'm excited! So I'll blog more about today later--toodles!
We left California at around midnight and got served dinner at 1-ish AM? It was actually pretty good--I had curry as my main dish with some assorted sides, and it was surprisingly delicious! Just like the stroopwafel I had as my snack on the Missouri to California plane ride. But then at I-don't-want-to-know-when AM, they gave us these weird chicken salad sandwiches--not the best snack I ever had. It was good at first but the more I had, the more it grated on my taste buds. And the protein bars were horrible! Breakfast was oatmeal that was good on the top and overly soggy on the bottom, Greek yogourt and fruit--decent, but not enough to keep me full. Especially after spending an hour or two in immigration, etc. Actually, they didn't examine our baggage in immigration--which makes sense, since we had been in security since Missouri, but still.
And let me say: I am never doing a long-haul red-eye again. We were on that flight for well over twelve hours, and I had the kind of sleep where you don't know if you actually were sleeping or not half the time, even though I was "sleeping" for most of the flight. I also re-watched Pride and Prejudice (the 2005 movie--quite good, but not such a masterpiece as the BBC miniseries). And when we landed in Korea, it was 5:something AM, but the sun was already coming up. But since the flight was so long, we basically had an eighteen-hour (or so) night last night, since the sun went down before we left California. And I kept waking up in the night, thinking I must have been sleeping for three or four hours, and we only had a couple hours left, right? But no, it was all in one-hour spurts. Ridiculous! It felt utterly interminable--like some sort of purgatory. Thank God I'm out now!
This place is insanely urban, even though it's only a suburb/satellite city of Seoul--the buildings here are taller than any I've ever seen before! And people are always rushing and always busy. It's ab-so-lute-ly insane. And I felt super rushed, and honestly even guilty when I had trouble understanding the airport shuttle bus driver once we landed when he was helping us with luggage, etc.--I couldn't really understand his accent sometimes, and some of his sentences just kind of didn't make sense?--probably because I was so tired. (He also started off speaking to me--the white girl, I'd think pretty obviously a foreigner--in Korean. I appreciate his optimism! Because I always get a little annoyed when I go to a Chinese restaurant and they give me normal silverware because they think I can't use chopsticks. But this man, I guess, had the right spirit at the wrong time.)
But yeah. We're about to go have kimbap for lunch now--I'm excited! So I'll blog more about today later--toodles!
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