Long Layover

I'm sitting in Charles de Gaulle airport with about four hours to kill before my flight to Cairo. While I am feeling pretty tired and filthy, the trip is going smoothly so far. We had about an hour's delay getting off the ground last night, but I power napped through the whole thing and didn't even notice until we were about to take off. I have never been on one of those enormous air buses before, and when it was gearing up to go airborne I wondered if we'd have to try it twice because we were so bulky. There was a ton of turbulence during the flight and I tried to distract myself with movies rather than think about us suspended precariously over dark Atlantic water. The landing was so rough that I felt like my heart was coming loose from the rest of my chest. But obviously I am fine,

In-flight entertainment has become so much more impressive since I flew to Berlin two years ago. This time had my very own little TV that let me select music, movies, etc. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Batman Begins kept me entertained whenever I wasn't sleeping. Last time I had an overseas flight, I had to watch an Amanda Bynes remake of Twelfth Night where all the characters were on a high school soccer team. Merci, Air France!