It was a night flight, cramped somewhere in the middle of a Boeing 747-400. Because of the electrical box that supplied TV screens to individual seat , I had half the leg space that I expected. They don't tell you that when you select your seat online. Had a great piece of hot salmon served on rice with fresh piece of lemon. Also, the pudding desserts that include dairy i.e. calcium, are great. Slept until a man in our row had a huge cough or sneeze. I woke up and automatically asked him if he was all right. Sorry, sorry, he said. Amsterdam airport is always great with great merchandising and fresh food. Yusuf and I had a $10 breakfast of pancakes and fresh juice e.g. organic carrot juice for me and apple-mint for him. When people saw what we were ordering, they all asked for it too! Yusuf knew what to order since he had been there with Zain in November en route to and from Qatar for some soccer investigation. (Yusuf met Zain in AMS since Zain was coming back from Africa at the time and they both came to Canada together.)
Anyway, I paid for a seat upgrade on the flight from AMS to Kigali...$47 each to sit in the exit row which gave us basically a playpen space to stretch and stand up. It was really nice and the stewardess sat backwards guarding the exit and she was very nice. You can see the pictures we both took from those two seats together by the window. The Italian Alps were spectacular in the bright morning sunshine!
Zain was at the airport waiting for us and he was almost jumping up and down with excitement watching us collect our bags from behind a steel gate barrier. We all hugged and I asked him if he was "the goose that we were wildly chasing?" He laughed and said he didn't know.
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