August 22

List of complaints for my flight from Cape Town to Amsterdam:
The sound on my personal TV didn’t work, so I could only watch (but not hear) the movies.
There was an Asian man with no sense of personal space to one side of me.
Across the aisle from me was a lady who snored all night (and never used her TV).
I was cold all night.

But most importantly, I arrived safely.
Syd and I went in to Amsterdam for me to see the city, since we had an 8-hour layover. It was a chilly, cloudy day. We hit the major cites- Anne Frank’s house, the canals, the museums (just kidding), a huge department store, the “coffee” shops, and the red light district (sad). I’m glad I got to see Amsterdam, but it would rank very low on my favorite cities list.
We returned to the airport in time to wait 2 hours to get on our flight to Cairo. That flight wasn’t full, so we could stretch out more and this time my TV worked. The flight was only four hours and thankfully uneventful.