• Had the best time in Christchurch. A lot of the crew went out for dinner at this place called the Tap Room. It was obvioulsly peak hour, as we had to wait 30min for a table, and then foudn out that they ran out of stone grills. (They had only 3, we wanted 4). I gave mine up to the captain, because I was the only one there who'd been there before. But we got 2 free pizzas, 2 free desserts and half price coffees, so yeah, I didn't complain. I was also the girl who ate the most, 3 colas, lamb cutlets, tiramisu and a Liquor coffee. The guys we kinda shocked that I wasn't eating vegie soup and salad. Hmmm
• We had the most crazy SFS on our flight. She sent a girl who was more senior than me back to training college for service training. Who the hell does that???
• Because she was crazy and the service was slow, we had to have a debrief in the Sydney hotel in full uniform for 45min. I then had to cancel dinner with Tim ;-(
• Some woman said the 2 magic words after pushback on the CHC-SYD leg. "Heart Attack". We had about 9 ambos look at her, only to diagnose that she was having a panic attack instead and was scared of flying. We offered to have someone sit next to her, to give her eyeshades, to get her off the plane. But she told us to go away. Now why would you make such a big deal and not want any help? 200 passengers probably missed connections because of her.
• When I was in Sydney I tried Krispy Kreme doughnuts for the very first time. I think I've had about 15 in the past week. So yeah I'm gonna fail my weigh-in at SEP next week.

• I have 3 days of bliss before Ash and her boyfriend arrive. I'm gonna enjoy it while it lasts.

My next flight is to Athens, which is looking to be a tad chili if weather.com is anything to go by. I have so much Xmas shopping to do... If only more people had an Amazon wish list it would make life so much easier. He he.

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Farts Spark Emergency Landing
An American Airlines flight has made an emergency landing after a passenger with severe gas problems struck matches to mask the odour of flatulence.
The flight from Washington to Texas landed at Nashville airport, in the southeastern state of Tennessee, after passengers alerted the crew to the smell of burning sulphur.
Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for Nashville International Airport Authority said all 99 passengers and their luggage were taken off the plane and searched.
An unlucky canine team was also brought in to sniff the aircraft for explosives.

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The seats were very strange. If you wanted to sit cross-legged then you could. And the decor was very much nature-inspired, with green trees stenciled on the chair back and tables.

It has the most amazing non-alcoholic drinks I have every tasted. This one here is a lavender violet lime soda.

And this one is the raspberry mint freeze. Doesn't look all that exciting but they're very good (and very easy to make too, should you have sorbet lying around in your freezer.)

Sadly the service was very very bad. It took 20 minutes for them to clear a dirty glass. I gave my meal order with a drink order and didn't receive it, having to tell them again when they finally cleared the glass. I was by myself, and the dining experience took almost a whole hour. I made it to the hotel half an hour before my wake up call. Not really ideal.

I'd still recommend going there though, if only because the food is really good. The chefs do the place credit. If only the waiters would lift their game, i'd spend all my money there.

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