Turkey

That is the longest flight either of us has been on. Guh!  We don't want to do that again.  Stop in France or somewhere less than 9 hours...

Ten reasons why I liked Turkish airlines:
10. I've never seen so many people flip out on the flight attendants when they cannot store overhead baggage directly above their assigned seat.
9. Those flight attendants?  All extremely good looking... except or one, but hee was up in first class.
8. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Captain America, and Zodiac.  Good time-passing movies.
7. In the saftey brief we were instructed to undo our ties and the top buttons of our collars.
6.  We were also told infant life vests are to be the only ones inflated prior to exiting the aircraft into water, then showed us a baby having a grand ol' time like he was about to take a dip in the kiddy pool instead of crash into the Atlantic.
5. Good red wine...still didn't make me sleepy.
4. Ashtrays placed for my convenience so I can smoke on the can... Who knew they had ashtrays still?
3. In the case we heard the call to "brace ourselves!" We were to bend our torso to our knees and hold our heads.  Physically impossible unless you were under 5 years old.
2. It was like being at Nana's.  They kept throwing food in our faces until lights out, and then as soon as people were up again.
1. Non-offensive bathroom deoderiser.  Sitting in front of the can for the whole flight, we never smelled poop once.

Istanbul airport is hot, extremely busy, the lady on the loud speaker never stops talking and there is nowhere to sit.  Also, half the airport is duty free stores!  Ya, we have decided that if we do get Dania, this is too much of an airport.  Seriously, it is unlike any I have been in.

A few hours to wait until we board for Ufa.