First leg: Sydney to Kuala Lumpur.

We've concluded, it - this trip - still doesn't seem real. Despite the fact we're sitting in KL international waiting for our connecting flight to London, via Cairo.

It'll probably get very real when sleep deprivation comes knocking somewhere between here and Cairo. When our patience wears thin and we just want to crash. Damn those people who can sleep anywhere...

Really, the first leg today, has gone rather well. In the airport security stakes Alysia continues her red hot form, being bomb tested (non-destructive), and frisked. That's three from three past international flights whilst Sam maintains a clean record.

The tail section in the Malaysian 747 was a empty as Peel St after 5pm giving almost everyone, us included, the chance to spread out across a "bench". Sam's record for not being able to sleep on internationnal flights is still zero from three (his ability to speak in the third person is unshakeable, however). To sum up: a good flight with above average food and in illness inducing quantities. Doesn't get much better really. Just what Egypt Air will be like time will tell. As long as we remember it's not a holiday, but an adventure, we'll do fine.
-Sam 23.46 Eastern Australia time. (9.46pm KL airport)