Two days ago at 5am I was saying goodbye to my parents and mike at the airport and with a huge grin on our faces, Darwyn, Jesse and I walked through security (the first of many!) and onto our flight to San Franscico. With about an hour to kill before our plane left, we decided to take advantage of the Maple Leaf Lounge guest passes that Mike had given us and headed to hang with all the business men in suits. After a latte and bowl of granola, we heading to the boarding gate knowing that the next two days were not going to be as easy and luxurious as this.
In San Fran we met up with Gillian who had flown in from Denver the night before we knew it we were boarding our next flight across the pacific ocean to Seoul, Korea.
12. long. hours. later. and a couple plane meals in me the wheels of the plane finally touched ground. Out we got, only to walk around for about 30min then board the same plane again, this time to Singapore.
With still no sleep in me i was determined to get a few minutes of rest on the next flight. (I now had been awake for just over 20hours)
The 6hour flight to signapore went by somewhat quickly, and I got a few minutes of sleep before my head would do the bob and I would be woken up again a little startled.
1am-> we got off the plane in singapore. Darwyn and Jesse went to find a bench to sleep on as the typically restless Gillian and I wondered the beautiful empty airport until the sun rose.
Up for a little adventure, we signed up for a free tour of singapore, so at 8am, we went through customs and jump on a tourist bus filled with other few touristy looking people.
The city of singapore was quite remarkable. it has the most people of square km than any other city and 80% of the population live in government housing . the shore line was littered with boats from the port and the city was covered with cranes. So much development all at once, and to think that singapore was once all a beautiful rainforest and now all it appeared to be was a city of cranes from the bus window.
The further into the city we got the more culture and religion that we were exposed to. At one point we were able to get out of the bus and walk around a temple.
The city was extremely divers in ethnic and religious background.
Nearing the end of the tour, my sleepy eyes finally caught up to me and asleep i was on the bus, so unfortunately i cannot tell you anything about the second part of the tour.
Back at the airport we ran into Sonja and Cass who were boarding the same flight as us to Balikpapan.
150pm we walked onto the final flight our journey and landed in Borneo with huge smiles on our flight.
All in all the travels went very smoothly.
The hotel that we are staying at in Balikpapan is very nice, the warm shower and comfy bed was extremely welcoming!
Since it has now almost been 48hours of travels with maybe 4hours of sleep, i must close my eyes and get my beauty sleep.
Tomorow, we shall explore and i will attempt to load some photos from the last couple days.
goodnight my friends
xo nadine
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