I may have got about 2 hours sleep and got up at 5am. Obviously I tried not to make too much noise but after those pesky kids I think my roommates had built up a tolerance. A few pieces of clothing were still wet so I stuck them on the outside of my bag in the hope they'd somehow dry in the next couple of hours whilst scrunched up in a net pocket.
They let me take my bag as carry-on again even though it was over by 1.4kg (I have no idea how it got lighter) The veggie pho was pretty bad but I was starving so I wasn't going to be fussy.
As I got to the gate I spotted a cute girl hugging her friend as they parted ways. More on her later. I was sat on the plane next to an English girl so had a bit of a chat with her and we both had a moan when they moved a little kid behind us. Luckily he got moved again to somewhere further back, phew! The English girl realised they'd delayed her flight without telling her and she said she was going to kick off, I told her to say she was going to be late for a wedding, she took this under advisement.
4 hours to kill at Kuala Lumpur airport, to be fair it's a nice airport with lots of stuff. There were lots of people sleeping in corners so I assume it's a busy hub, either that or they have a serious homeless problem in Malaysia. Even though there were a lot of food places I really struggled to find anything vegetarian and decent. I settled on an Irish sandwich cafe which was the least Irish place I've ever been in my life, they did a nice egg sandwich though. Weird thing at KL airport is that after you clear security you can't buy anything in bottles, they just have cups with lids on. Apparently this is so AirAsia can charge you for drinks on the flight. Note to self, always have a bottle with me.When I got to the departure gate I saw the cute girl who was on my flight from Hanoi. More on her later.
The flight was pretty awful because I was on the back row so I couldn't put my seat back but the guy in front could. I mostly just slept on this flight except when they started piping their "AirAsia It's A Kind Of Wonderful" song through the speakers. Think Everything is Awesome from The Lego Movie but shit. Its only redeeming feature is that it has a key change at the end. The guy sat next to me had a moan about it too and he also shared some knowledge of The Philippines. Towards the end of the flight I could see some lightning out of the window. I don't remember seeing lightning whilst on a flight, it's pretty epic because you can see the whole cloud from the side.
When we arrived in The Philippines I was surprised that they didn't ask for proof of my onward flight but passport control was instead just really simple. I'd done a little bit of research about taxis so I knew I was getting a metered white taxi and I had the address of the hostel on my phone. In retrospect I should have pre-loaded my Google Maps because it turned out the driver only had a rough idea where we were going. We made it up to the mountains and then he just drove around asking people for directions. After lots of back and forth up and down the mountain we eventually found it and it actually only cost a fiver so again I just chalk it up to experience and move on.
I got to the hostel at about 12.30am so Dan and Mary were sleeping. I woke them up, we hugged, I ate some soy broad beans and then we all went to sleep.
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