1 night in Mumbai

I made it. I made it to my one night stop over in Mumbai before heading out to Indore tomorrow morning. I am feeling good now that I have had a chance to shower, change clothes and brush my teeth. Flying for 18 hours in a 24 hour period is yuck. But I will know how to do it better next time.

I really enjoyed the first leg of the trip, 7 hours to KL. First time flying with Emirates and the following things made this a very exciting flight:
- Free movies, tv shows, playlists (unlike Jetstar, being the only other airline I've flown with o/s).
- Play list included a Madonna option! (And Iron Maiden for you, Alex Coish).
- Full length mirror in the bathroom.
- 'Fairy lights' on the roof so when it was dark you could see the illusion of being under the stars.
- Seats that actually 'recline', rather than 'jerkbackaninchundertheguiseofreclining'.
- Video view from your tv screen showing the front and down view of the plane. No more clamoring for window seat (I prefer aisle anyway, perhaps it's a control thing?).
- Can make calls/texts from your seat (might try this on my way back just cos I can).
- Cute little pillows that make for great back support along with my favourite on-flight accessory; my snuggie! Haters gonna hate but I used to judge the snuggie rage and then I used it on a plane and o.m.g this is exactly when you want sleeves in your blanket. Get around it.
- The ability to go shopping duty free during the flight using the shopping system on your tv screen. 

Enjoyed my first plane meal of a sandwich and muffin. So what if it was 4am my time.

Unsurprisingly, I didn't read my itinerary in great detail before leaving. So I was surprised to find that when we got off our first 7 hour flight we had 20 minutes before boarding the next 7 hour flight. I thought I had 3 hours in between. Luckily I had fellow Australian colleague Greg, who is also on this trip with me nearby and I think this gave me a sense of security. Flying home alone though, so step it up Towicz!

Unfortunately the second 7 hour flight was not as enjoyable. As it seems to be the case in this fast moving world, I acclimatised pretty quickly to the new exciting shiny toys I had listed above and instead heard the 3 crying babies who decided to tag team with their tears and screams. I also had a dodgy pair of headphones when trying to watch my movies so pressed the button to get a hostess to assist with a new pair. I will admit, this occurred 5 times before I finally had success (Should I feel bad? Nah...I wasn't going to be angry the whole way..I think the girl helping me decided my punishment for bringing her back was to leave the other 4-5 broken seats of headphones at my feet lol).

We only have a one night stop over in Mumbai before making our final destination, Indore. Here is a picture of my room below:

I am proud of myself for remembering to brush my teeth with bottled water given my level of serious sleep deprivation. Although, blonde moments have already begun with me hearing a random beeping noise on occasion from one part of the room. Eventually rang reception and a guy came up. Turns out it was the doorbell as the front counter was trying to deliver me some paperwork. Oops. 101 education on how a doorbell works- check.

So I have a 4.15am wake up call for my flight out to Indore, yet my PC is on Aus time where it is currently 4.12am. The last few timezones/day have been a blur.

Thanks for reading and commenting everyone! Not long now until I reach my destination of Indore and meet our client Hemal! :)

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