Hey,
A few weeks ago, I had gone to Chennai to get my visa. If you read my blogs frequently you might have read the blog i wrote about my trip to Chennai. If you haven't read that blog, i suppose you should read that one first because this is a continuation of that story, but if you have read it, great! Let's continue with the story.
As soon as we got home from the airport we starting packing. There wasn't much to pack because only me and my mom were travelling, my dad had already gone to US, waiting for us to come.
Next day we finished packing by afternoon. It was really tiring, sucked all the life out of me.
By night we were ready to leave home. There was a taxi scheduled to come to 8.00 in the night.
So i asked my mom when the flight was, and i was shocked when i heard the answer, it was at 4.00 tomorrow in the morning.
Then, in the turn of events, the taxi got cancelled, because of the heavy rain that was taking place.
So, it took us another half an hour to book a cab and it took the cab another half hour to reach us.
Let me tell all of you people out there, i like long drives, only if the car is comfortable, the cab we booked was way too old to be called comfortable. it looked as if that car was passed on for five generation and then reached us.
The three hour long journey was really bumpy and as i said, i did not like it.
My mom doesn't complain about it because she thinks that whatever condition it is, atleast we reach the destination.
We, reached the airport, and sat there. We couldn't do ANYTHING there because all the good shops can be found AFTER security. so for 3 hours i had to sit and wait and wait and wait and wait till we get out boarding passes.
We finally got the boarding passes and wet through security and then again..........we had to wait.
Luckily there was this desktop over there so i was playing games on that.
I have noticed one thing in the airport, on the website its written on 45 minutes of free wifi, but i was playing online games for more than 2 hours and nothing happened, wow.
We boarded the flight and again, had to wait.
This flight wasnt a direct flight to US but we had to stop in Qatar and catch a flight from there to US.
So, our first flight was to Doha, a place in Qatar, the airport was far away from civilization because it was surrounded by sand, or in simple terms, it was in the middle of a dessert.
Even though the climatic condition was bad and the placement was hopeless, the airport was pretty good, but there was one bad thing, after security you have to wait in a tiny room and there's nothing inside that room, except for chairs.
So again, waiting like crazy.
We boarded the flight and again, just waiting.
There are TVs in international airlines but there are not so many good movies on it. nonetheless, i saw almost 10 movies.
what else could i do? its a 18 hours flight.
Finally, after all that waiting, i had reached the US of A. We had reached JFK airport, and i must say, i dont like it there.
That place is so huge that there are trains inside the airport that take you to 8 different terminal that lead you almost 50 gates each terminal.
Me and my mom took the wrong train and we actually ended up outside the airport.
After navigating through the area it took us one whole hour to find the gate and then again, waiting.
JFK had really good shops, there was dunkin donuts!!
i bought 5 donuts from there and ate four and a half of them, the other half was eaten by my mum, she doesnt really like donuts or anything too sweet.
After half an hour of waiting the boarding started and we had entered the plane.
I was jet lagging so bad that i slept for the whole flight.
For those of you who dont know what jet lagging means, ill explain it. skip the next two paragraphs if you know what it means.
We all know that US and india have different time zones. When its day here, its night there. When its night here its day there.
But since an aeroplane flys so fast that it doesnt give us enough time to adjust to the timings, so this means that if you live in india and go to US you will feel like sleeping in the afternoon and working at midnight.
So, after sleeping for three hours we had reached tampa airport, the final destination.
we took a cab from the airport and reached the hotel.
In india i have noticed one thing, all the taxis have yellow name plates, but in america, they paint the whole car yellow, so it kind of makes it clear for everyone.
We found dad near the door of his room, waiting for us.
mum and i gave him a big, nice hug and then retired to the bed immediately after.
I must say, i have waited way to much in this trip, i surely dont want to wait anymore but it turns i do
But thats a story for story for another time, and another blog
see all you people in the next part of this epic journey.
keep smiling.
Good Bye
