The beauty of EI722 is that it is scheduled for 4pm which leaves the whole morning for those little odds and ends to be tidied away and so it was a very satisfied honey lamb who joined her friends who were taking her to the airport, for a quick lunch before being whisked away for her adventures in SE Asia. I had done OLCI the day before securing SEQ 4 which, considering I couldn’t do it until 30 minutes after it opened, wasn’t bad. My bag was tagged and security was pleasantly quiet and soon I was in possession of a rather nice G&T in the bar. My holiday had begun!
I had been told at check-in that there was a 20 minutes delay on the flight which was fine with me and I had great fun tracking the flight on the Plane Finder app on my iPad. Incidentally it was great having the iPad instead of my MacBook - made the hand luggage so much lighter. The flight landed and in due course a queue formed ready for boarding regardless of the fact that the passengers were still disembarking from the earlier flight. So there was I, nicely ensconced on my chair waiting for boarding when I felt that someone was looking at me, nay, glaring balefully at me.
My eyes swept the waiting line and then did a double-take. Standing there and indeed glaring balefully at me was my sister-in-law who has more chips on her shoulders than can be found in Harry Ramsden’s. Ah well! I simply smiled sweetly and gave a flicker of recognition and returned to my iPad. 
Boarding commenced shortly after that and as the loads were light, we were soon on board. The flight was bog standard - it took off, I had a G&T and it landed, albeit 40 minutes late but as stated, it was not a problem. There was however one unexpected bonus. It was Bonfire Night and as we were making our descent many firework displays were well under way. It was rather surreal looking at fireworks from above but great fun. I love fireworks. The bags came through fairly quickly after that and I, fizzing with excitement, headed for T3 and my flight to Singapore
