As I post these very few words I am at Hong Kong’s phenomenal International Airport Chek Lap Kok. It is Tuesday the 24th of May 2016 here in Hong Kong and the time is about 9:45am as I begin to type these words.<\/p>\n
My server is still enjoying Monday May the 23rd so that is the official date of this Post.<\/p>\n
For months I have known (with some sadness because I am still not quite ready to leave Asia) that I would be returning to the U.S. on this date.<\/p>\n
I am in the .. Taa-Daa .. Boarding Gate Number 15 SKY TEAM LOUNGE because I am flying ‘business class’ and am therefor entitled to be in this amazing lounge. It was a project to find the lounge but find it I did. In fact I got out here to Chek Lap Kok very early so I could take-advantage of this lounge.<\/p>\n
One advantage of this first \/ business class lounge is this desk top Apple Computer. Sad! There are three of them and no one else is interested in the sad little Apple Desk tops because 100% of everyone else (except Your Captain here) have lap tops and tablets and smart phones of their own.<\/p>\n
Back now to the beginning of my arrival here at the first \/ business class lounge.<\/p>\n
What came first?<\/p>\n
Food .. Food .. and ? .. More Food ..<\/p>\n
KNOWING MIND YOU that the moment we are airborne .. being in ‘business class’ there will appear .. Food .. Food .. and ? .. More Food ..<\/p>\n
I just filled myself up on a wonderful tuna pasta salad covered with so many black olives marinated in spices and olive oil that the kitchen crew went running for more to replenish the olive-reservoir for other travellers. I also had four mini-yogurts with fruit and a good many spicy croutons to go with the olives and tuna pasta salad with some Sprite to wash things down. Oh .. I had a few (Captain this is a program of honesty) .. well I had a bunch of gummy-bear snakes and a dozen danish pastries as I waited for my toast to begin to emit flames from the top of the toaster. I like my toast ‘very VERY dark’. I was standing guard over my toast and had nothing else to do (it took a good ten minutes for the toast-to-toast) but to munch away on the danish puff pastries beside the toaster.<\/p>\n
What else? My memory is failing me. It seems I ate some other things.<\/p>\n
Oh Captain think of the ‘C’ word. Ah-h-h yes there were some COOKIES available. Several different types of COOKIES. I tend to lean toward Chocolate Chip Cookies. But I did try some very rich French-looking cookies too.<\/p>\n
And the Dinkey Bird IS Singing In The Amfalula Tree sports fans.<\/p>\n
Do you all know-what? It seems to me that almost everyone around me is taking-for-granted their being in here. You know ..<\/p>\n
An attitude of .. “I am .. after all\u00a0dahhlings .. ENTITLED TO BE HERE<\/em><\/span>.”<\/p>\n When I am riding a m<\/em>anic-wave<\/em><\/span> I need to be careful NOT to feed the Dragon.<\/p>\n So while I still have a lot of time to get to my boarding gate .. I will not feed the Manic Dragon by running late and rushing like a crazy man .. I am going to sign off here and .. slowly with a relaxed attitude .. having eaten and drinken a lot of liquid so I am NOT dehydrated .. head for Boarding Gate 67. The ladies here said to me when I asked them ..<\/p>\n “Is Gate 67 a long way away?”<\/p>\n “Yes Sir .. You will want to allow yourself plenty of time Sir.”<\/p>\n With Joy .. NOT taking one thing for granted .. having an Attitude of Gratitude for all that I have ..<\/p>\n I shall sign off here ..<\/p>\n Cap .. The Luckiest Man Alive ..<\/p>\n Thank You My Dear Patti for all of our calls. Is this Post a mess or did I pull-it-off ? <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Love .. Cap .. I thought better of\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>doing a photo shoot of the lounge. I may sneak in a photo or\u00a0two. I will ask first IF it is OK to do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I post these very few words I am at Hong Kong’s phenomenal International Airport Chek Lap Kok. It is Tuesday the 24th of May 2016 here in Hong Kong… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,229,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-airlines-flights","category-hong-kong-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21285"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21299,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21285\/revisions\/21299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}