Just 2 more hours to go and we are landing in Brisbane. So far this travel has been exceptionally good and thats what I want to report on now.
About 22 hours ago our start in Duesseldorf was not so relaxing as the airplane that should bring us to our first stopp over at Frankfurt arrived 30 minutes late. But finally we arrived only 10 minutes late in Frankfurt as this little trip only took 30 minutes - really fast. When we had to wait for our plane in Duesseldorf, Joshua became extremely eagerly - this made me quite a bit worried about what could happen on a 12 hours flight...
In Franfurt we had to change Terminal but not really necessary to worry although we only had 40 min. Between arrival and boarding for the next destination to Singapore. The Lufthansa 747-300 was a really old worn out plane (I was told it was a converted old cargo plane). Absolutely no entertainment (just some music channels and old TV screens somewhere far away). But we were prepared: iPad, iPod, 2x Nintendo DS and spare batteries to survive the 12 hours trip. Dinner was disgusting as well and seats uncomfortable. However, the kids did really well! Jonah, needless to say, was doing extremely well and caught some 10 hours of sleep. Jeremia had some difficult moments when he woke up some times but fell asleep again. Our biggest worry Joshua though has shown that he is now a big boy and behaved extremely well. So the 12 hours passed by without major incidents and we all were happy to get off the plane.
We immediately took the SkyTrain from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 at Singapore Changi Airport to go the rooftop pool of the transit hotel. At nice temperature we took a refreshing bath with a view on the planes at the gates and on the runway. A very special experience. After three hours we went to Terminal 3 where after a burger dinner we visited the butterfly house. This is a nice little garden in the Terminal where you can observe various kinds of butterflys. Would we have had more time, there would have been many more things to do as there are kids playgrounds and a 12 meter slide and more. This is a really good transit airport.
So we walked very relaxed to our departure gate where we only had to wait a few more minutes till we boarded on our Singapore Airlines Airbus 330-300 to Brisbane. What a difference! Brand new interior with very well designed seats (still economy though) and a great entertainment system with hundreds of films on demand, thousends of songs and loads of games. And then a flatscreen of the size you only find in Business Class on other airlines. Dinner was very good - a traditional Singapore porc and rice dish with a lovely sauce, some cheese and an icecream as desert. The kids had really good kids menues as well. Joshua showed again that he is now a big boy - sitting next to little Jonah he took care of him even during dinner. Just, he couldn't sleep on the 7 hours flight as he had to try out all the games.
So we are now looking forward to arrive in Brisbane at 6am and then try to stay awake throughout the day.
Photos of the flights and our relaxing in the pool will be uploaded soon on www.frantzen.de/australia.
...and now we are only two hours away from Brisbane...
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