Off to the desert...finally

Tips on being overweight at the airport.

No diet needed actually. Just charm, and a HUGE A1+ size piece of luggage, that needs FRAGILE stickers and also to be booked onto the flight separately. This is called distraction, and in Cape Town still seems to work better than bribery. I had approximately 50 kilo's of luggage on my own. I was allowed 20. ( Just to put you in the picture.)

Yes, so after having a few nervous breakdowns in the days preceding the flight, we finally made it to the airport and were off to the desert. I was a bit stressed (ok, really stressed for those who saw me the day before I left) since I knew that my luggage would be WAY overweight. And it dawned on me just then, that I was actually LEAVING the country!

We had to run through Jo'burg airport with a 20 minute window between flights. At last we could sit back and relax on the Emirates Airlines flight. Which was wonderful, by the way, The in-flight entertainment was fantastic, and the 7 hour flight seemed too short to fit everything in!