Getting There

Getting to Bangladesh is no easy trip. We left on Friday, Oct. 9. Dad met me at my house, and we left at about 2:00 PM to go to Aunt Susan and Uncle John's. Once there, Uncle John took us to O'Hare Airport in Chicago for our 9:30 PM flight. We flew Etihad Airlines. It is the national carrier of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Our first flight was from Chicago to Abu Dhabi and was about 12-13 hours. Etihad is a pretty good airline. The flight attendants were good, and there were movies, TV shows, and video games on demand at every seat, but it was still a very, very long flight. Additionally, about 4 hours into the flight someone a few rows behind us and on the other side of the plane fainted. Fortunately, he seemed to be doing fine a little later, and there were no other problems for the rest of the flight. Then to top it all off after a layover of a couple of hours was another 4-5 hour flight from Abu Dhabi to Dhaka. By the time we arrived in Bangladesh, we had been traveling for over 24 hours, and I had watched three movies and at least a half dozen TV shows, played several games of Tetris, and slept for only 1-2 hours. It was also about 5 AM when we arrived. Needless to say, we were set up for some very bad jet lag.

Inside the airport at Abu Dhabi.