Too many airports

The parents dropped me off a lot earlier at the airport than I expected so I had 3 hours to kill before boarding my flight from Chicago to L.A. There were some interesting characters, to say the least. I was sure that kharma would bite me in the bum and sandwich me between the two very large women and in front of the woman with the dog in a pink soccer jersey. I ended up sitting next to a really nice woman from California who was in Chicago on business. She gave me some cheese and crackers as well as her People magazine when she was finished with it. Our inflight movie was that crappy Miley Cyrus film, The last Song. We both watched it and cried, hilarious. She was really nice to talk to and I definitely lucked out. The plane landed on time in L.A. but we had to wait forever to get to the gate because a plane was blocking the way. When I finally got off the plane I managed to pay too much for a whopper at burger king before having to hunt for an open floor space to sit at the terminal. The flight to AUS was packed! They boarded the back of the plane first, so I got to settle in my seat right away. On that flight I managed to luck out again and sat next to two kids travelling to study abroad in Brisbane from a cali state school. We managed to be ‘those kids’ on the flight because we were very giggly. They provided booze with dinner so I had to remind the girl next to me that if she drank too much and barfed on me I wouldn't be happy. I decided to keep it classy and have a mini bottle of chardonnay with my meal.
I was actually really surprised with the food. Not in the sense of how good it was, but just by how much they were giving us. Dinner consisted of salad, chocolate volcano cake, a dinner roll with butter, and your choice of either bbq salmon with garlic rice and peas or honey glazed chicken with parsley mashed potatoes and beans. The chicken kind of sucked and the potatoes were DEFINITELY from the box, but I was already pretty full from whopper at the airport, not realizing that I would be fed so soon. After dinner they came around to serve tea, peppermint tea, and Cadbury hot chocolate complete with a jumbo marshmallow. The hot cocoa was delicious and probably my favorite thing that I ate on the flight. After they collected our dinner trays they gave everybody a goody back with snacks and a water bottle in it to hold us off until breakfast. Yes, breakfast. We got TWO MEALS!! I only thought they were going to feed me once. Breakfast was the same kind of thing as dinner. You got a tray with fruit salad, OJ, a croissant with jam, and then your choice of either an egg and bacon frittata with mushrooms, tomato, and spinach or cereal and milk. I, of course, went with the eggs which proved to be disappointing, but I was starving.
I didn’t sleep much between dinner and breakfast, maybe 5 hours max. We had personal tv screens in the backs of the chairs that included tv, movies, music on demand, videogames, and a thing where you could see the progress of the flight. I watched a few movies and fell asleep during one of them. The rest of my time awake I spent trying to sleep or making frequent trips to the bathroom. Thank goodness I landed that aisle seat. I’m definitely going to try to reschedule my seat assignment for the flight home as aisle instead of window once I figure out this internet business.
After that long flight I had a 2 hour one between Brisbane and Townsville. It was short and sweet and they served us a light morning tea with streusel, but actually navigating the airport was a disaster. You had to catch a bus between the international and domestic terminals and the man I asked wasn’t exactly the most helpful. I finally figured it out, but it cost me $5. Thank goodness I had exchanged some currency before I left. The major bummer was that after I paid I found out that all I needed to show was my Qantas boarding pass and it would’ve gotten me on free. Oh well.