Friday, August 25, 2006

Explosions and Such Like

Well, our trip back from America was exciting! We were three quarters of the way over the Atlantic when the port engine burst into flames! Fortunately for us, we had a brilliant pilot and there was a aircraft carrier directly under us, and we crashed into the water and they pulled us out (those life jackets ARE hard to take off...) and then, to get the rest of the way, we went jetskiing...
you can't see it, but all our bags are tied on in the plume behind the aircraft. After that daring (and very fun (well, mom didn't like it)) adventure, we had very little layover time in Germany, but the next airplane also had issues, and we wound up splashing into the red sea, and were attacked by pirates! But, living in the ends of the earth, they fell off the edge:
I am not quite sure how we got out of that one, but mom is really quite good with her camera. Then there was a forty day hike over the mountains of the west side of the Arabian peninsula with nothing to eat but airplane food. (I hope this paints a dire enough picture for you...) before we made it back safe if not quite mentally sound.

U want the really story? Well, that one is much more boring. We got on an airplane flew to Germany, had a 6 or 7 hour layover, flew to Cairo, and then here to Yemen. No pirates, no jetskiing, no edge of the earth, but it is good to sleep in my own bed and use my own amp with my guitar.

5 comments:

Jeffrey said...

try harder next time to make all that stuff happen, ok? (especially the jetskiing, that sounds really fun)

Jasmine said...

were the pirates cute?

Graham said...

yeah, next time I will be sure to have my board along with me as well as enough c4 to knock a bird out of the sky next to a british aircraft carrier.

Well, the pirates were the normal type; dirty, hairy, and yelling, as it was, they sorta fell off the edge before I got a good look at them, you know how clueless I am, I was reading my book when the plane went down, I thought it was just some bad turbulence.

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Graham said...

yeah, i tried that, giants among us was hilarious.