Finally arrived in Philadelphia after a grueling 26 hours of traveling. The plane trip was really horrible. I first flew for 3.5h to New zealand first, stopped there for 2 hours, then 12 hours to LA, stopped there for 2 hours, then flew to philadelphia for 5 hours, then had to sit in the airport and wait 2 hours for terry's (my colleague who is attending the conference in Phili with me) flight to come in (he caught a different flight between LA and Phili). On the positive, I managed to score 4 very good plane food meals, including a chicken schnitzel, lasagne, and this really nice noodle chicken salad. I also watched about 5 movies, though I couldnt see half of them because the big idiot in front of me had a big head that
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