Just Arrived in Jakarta...

Just arrived in Jakarta after... (six reasons I love travel, really, I don't mind these things, I feel it's all worth it in the end)

1) being forced to leave one bag behind in Geneva or pay $500, and this was their "special price just for me" (in a hurry... so who knows which bag I ended up with and what will be in it when I arrive) One lesson learned: five star airline means five star hidden prices.... I don't have a five star pocket book and offend the five star check in staff when i refuse to pay five star baggage fees.... five star just ain't my thing...

2) I ran full speed to catch plane to Doha (after baggage fiasco) only to get on the plane and sit on the tarmac for 1.5 hours

3) a dusty, humid, hot, hot, hot day in Doha... wondering where all the Qatari's are out there on the street... they were all at the mall, eating at Applebees... ummm yeah, not excactly the cultural experience I was looking for, but very enlightening nonetheless...

4) When leaving Doha, not only did the Qatar Airways baggage Natzi's weigh my hand baggage and reject it (even though I had come from Geneva with the same hand baggage, they made me check my carry on, but luckily didn't try to charge me $500 like when I checked in in Geneva with two bags) I learned this was only because they didn't know about my original bag because they had lost it somewhere in Doha, it still wasn't located when I boarded the plane

5) 11 hours of woman puking on me (literally, the flight staff had to ask her to quit sleeping on my tray table so they could set my food down, she was non-responsive.... I felt for her, I did, I let her sleep on my shoulder, but oh the smells, the sounds and the thoughts of my upcoming illness...Oi!)

6) Prayers were answered, luggage found in Jakarta, ride picked me up... now at the hotel and vewy vewy tired.... ZZZzzzzzzzz

Will fill in the gaps later.... ZZZZZzzzzz

P.S. does anyone know how much 2 million Indonesian money is? (yes, I've lowered myself to calling it Indonesian money, so unclassy I know, but im tired, jetlagged and even wikipedia feels like too much effort right now)... yeah... and this many zero's and my mind gets all boggled... maybe they can just take off a few zero's or something... well I hope 2 million isn't my life savings because I just took it out of my account, but the ATM let me do it so it must not be too much... see I've been traveling so much lately I've overlooked some of these details, well actually I did have the exchange rate written on a post-it-note with the precise amount I should withdrawl when I arrived... only it dissapeared in the baggage fiasco and there was no way I could remember a number with that many digits...so I just pushed a number on the ATM that looked good and 2 million sounds cool... I don't think I've ever had 2 million of anything!